Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic ... Located in the asteroid belt ...

Determining the asteroid's exact size will be difficult. Scientists would need deep space radar observations ... into the outer part of the asteroid belt when it is farthest from the Sun.