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 ...

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because our moon and planet Mercury also have such polar ice deposits, which have been studied for decades. "For Ceres, the story started in 2016, when the ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Scientists have long suspected that crazy ice volcanoes, called cryovolcanoes, exist on Pluto and Ceres and even Saturn’s moon Titan, but Ahuna Mons has given them their first real evidence of ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.