Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

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.

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

dark space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that is flush with water. This asteroid group has striking similarities to Ceres, the only dwarf planet within the inner part of ...

And then there are all those icy deposits at the bottom of the craters on Ceres. But asteroid belt bodies don’t tend to have any sort of ice. They’re dry and dusty. And that’s why this team wanted to ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

WASHINGTON >> Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a ...