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

The asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter might be holding the building blocks of life, according to a new study.

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

"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 like ...

As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

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

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

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

A team of astrophysicists from several institutions in Italy, working with a colleague in the U.S., has found that aliphatic ...