New evidence suggests Ceres could be one of the most important places to explore in the solar system. Donald Trump's ...

Ceres: Past, present, and future The composition of Ceres links the dwarf planets with a family of meteorites rich in compounds of carbon. These fragments of asteroids are called " carbonaceous ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest known object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And now we know it may be an ocean world with intriguing geologic activity taking place on and ...

The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is likely made from a dirty frozen ocean ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres, long believed to be a rocky object with minimal ice, was once an ancient water world. According to a study published in Nature ...

Dwarf planet Ceres: Building blocks of life delivered from space The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to ...

Using computer models, the team discovered that dirt mixed into Ceres ' ancient ocean could have reinforced the dwarf planet's ice, holding the craters' shapes and preserving some of its other ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long perplexed planetary scientists. Once considered a planet, then an asteroid, and now officially classified as a dwarf ...

Ceres and Earth are as close as they'll be for the year, with a separation of some 176 million miles (283 million km). Due to the dwarf planet's small size, it will look exactly like a small star ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

To put this to the test, Pamerleau, his Ph.D. supervisor Mike Sori, and Jennifer Scully of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ran computer simulations that modeled how Ceres' craters would behave across ...