In prior missions, traces of organic materials were identified on the surfaces of other celestial bodies, such as Enceladus and Titan, moons of Saturn, and now Ceres joins the list. The detection ...

Earth's moon Striping is seen on many of the worlds ... out of these "tiger stripe" features on Enceladus' south pole. Ceres This dwarf planet is the largest object in the Asteroid Belt (though ...

Those with which we are more familiar are in almost all cases crater-strewn irregularly shaped bodies that can even have tiny moons. Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres, long believed to be a rocky object with minimal ice, was once an ancient water world. According to a study published in Nature ...