"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that ...
NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...
Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet was ... in Purdue’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ...
they speculated it is a 'brown dwarf,' a star which is larger than a planet but lacks the mass to sustain long-term nuclear fusion in its core like Earth's sun. If the object confirmed as a brown ...