The mystery of the dwarf planet Ceres' lonely ice volcano may have just been solved. NASA's Dawn probe discovered the 2.5-mile-high (4 kilometers) cryovolcano, named Ahuna Mons , in 2015.

Here on Earth, we have something called volcanoes. We think we understand them very well; they’re essentially vents for Earth’s underground networks of molten rock, and when the pressure down there ...

Instead, Ceres' crater morphology suggests that the dwarf planet's crust is a strange mix of perhaps 60 percent rock and 40 percent ice, Russell said. "This is something that we haven't seen ...

The lonely ice mountain. ... On Earth, shifting plates cause lava to erupt through the crust in multiple locations, often spawning chains of volcanoes, but Ceres has no plate tectonics.

Every year throughout its 4.5-billion-year life, ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate enough material on average to fill a movie theater, according to a new study led by the University ...

It’s also possible that Ceres was resurfaced by stuff spewing out from ice volcanoes, which could explain the high peak of Ahuna Mons or the mysterious bright spots in Occator crater.

A new study shows that dozens of ice volcanoes used to litter the surface of the dwarf planet, Ceres, billions of years ago. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, ice volcanoes (also known as cryovolcanoes ...

Literally, an ice volcano. The latest research, published online Monday in Nature Astronomy, suggests Ahuna Mons isn't just an extremely cool (sorry) anomaly. In fact, Ceres may have dozens of ...

Data from the Dawn spacecraft's mission to Ceres has yielded one surprise after another, the latest of which suggests the surface of the dwarf planet is made up of an odd ice-rock mixture that has ...

Ceres' Lonely Ice Volcano Might Have Company Scientists believe a process called viscous relaxation may have flattened out other volcanoes on the ice planet. By Sophie Weiner Published: Feb 03 ...

At 2.5 miles tall, Ahuna Mons sticks out like a sore thumb on Ceres. The ice volcano is by far the biggest thing on the dwarf planet, and there are no runners-up. It’s Ceres’ only ice volcano ...

The mystery of the dwarf planet Ceres' lonely ice volcano may have just been solved. NASA 's Dawn probe discovered the 2.5-mile-high (4 kilometers) cryovolcano, named Ahuna Mons , in 2015.