January 2014

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The asteroid belt, a ring of rubble between Mars and Jupiter, has sometimes been thought of as abandoned remnants from the beginning of the solar system. But new research published in the journal…

Last week, scientists announced in a study in Nature that Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, spews water vapor into space. In fact, this big ball of rock and ice could hold more water than Earth. It is a fascinating…

A better understanding of the asteroid belt has revealed just how dynamic the solar system was in its early days, a new study reports.Over the past decade, astronomers have realized that the main belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter are…

Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to periodically shoot out of Ceres as…

Through Lisa Grosman just let off steam(Image: IMCCE-Paris Observatory/CNRS/Y.Gominet, B. Carry/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 FR) The dwarf planet Ceres has been caught sprouting water vapor, possibly from…