Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and ... on Ceres holds profound implications for the field of astrobiology, which seeks to understand ...

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

Ceres was the first asteroid discovered ... "It's so large, it has enough of a gravitational field to pull itself into a round shape, unlike most other asteroids, which just look like potatoes ...

Ceres sits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... It was sitting in a vast field of rocky bodies, or asteroids. Ceres was named the first and the largest among them.

Variations in Ceres’ gravitational field back that up ... and it locks up one-third of the entire mass in the asteroid belt. Astronomers think Ceres is a protoplanet, the fossilized remains ...

Ceres, the tiny asteroid belt world we’ve come to know ... And with the gravity field data, we’ll get a clearer picture of Ceres’ interior, including its layering structure and any ...

“Its evolution is more complex than what we envisioned.” Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt, the field of rocks that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The Dawn ...

He noted, "Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet ... Europa’s magnetic field measurements further support the presence of a salty ocean, making it a prime ...

Two of the three largest asteroids, Vesta and Ceres, reached opposition ... a sketch of the star field on two different nights. The "star" that moves will be the asteroid. Join our Space Forums ...

The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between ... dwarf planet's gravity field also suggest a density ...

this vast debris field has come to be known as the asteroid belt. So matters rested until the recent controversy over the status of Pluto erupted onto the public scene. Like Ceres, Pluto was for ...