Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801. It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in ...

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...

The looming cancellation of RPS has placed the highest-priority planetary science mission of the coming decade at risk. In ...

An international team of scientists says the samples are a snapshot of the early Solar System, more pristine than any ...