A dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. Ceres ...

Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...

Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist on Ceres, the closest frozen ocean world to Earth at an ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.

A recent study suggests that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, particularly the dwarf planet Ceres, may contain ...

Scientists at Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) suggest Ceres is very icy and might have once been a ...

A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that Ceres is far icier than once thought and may have once been a muddy ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

“Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more ...