R ecent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building blocks of life beneath its surface. Scientists have discovered ...

The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf planet, positioned between Mars and Jupiter, is the only inner Solar ...

With a diameter of 1000 kilometres, Ceres was, however, too small to close that gap on ... Instead of a planet on the far side of Mars they had found the Main Asteroid Belt of the Solar System. Today ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...