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 ...

Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and most theories surrounding its creation ...

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

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Newly discovered materials on the distant asteroid Ceres leads to speculation that aliens may have once called it home. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently ... joining Enceladus and Ceres. Life on Earth uses five nucleobases to store and transmit genetic instructions in ...

China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year. Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

It is second in size only to asteroid Ceres, which is 580 miles (940 km) in diameter and orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers officially recognize nine major planets. EB173 is too small to ...