For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, said Scott King, a geoscientist in the Virginia Tech College of Science. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt — the region ...

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt -- the region between Jupiter and Mars speckled with hundreds ...

Researchers led by Prof. Zhou Xia from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, made significant progress in understanding ultra-long-period ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have found compelling evidence of a dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxy, FCC 224. This ultra-diffuse galaxy is located on the ...

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

Dark matter is one of the most important and most mysterious questions in modern astronomy. Although dark matter cannot be seen or touched, it profoundly influences the formation and evolution of ...