A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

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Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our understanding of this mysterious celestial object. Computer simulations suggest ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

They found that the supposed brown dwarf is a massive super-Jovian planet. The finding was reported October 10 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Brown dwarfs (BDs ...

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A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers reveal. A new study finds that Ceres, which sits in the asteroid belt between ...

Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a ... Uranus and Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt ...

Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a mess since ... until William Herschel discovered Uranus and Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, ...