In the television series "The Expanse," Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so-called 'belters': in this series, which is based on real physics, humans colonize the asteroid belt for mining.

(The asteroid is called 1999 AT10). Ceres, like Vesta, is a long-time inhabitant of the asteroid belt. It also has many craters on its surface. Why haven't scientists seen any "ceroids" associated ...

The asteroid belt is a pretty interesting place ... but Ceres was eventually retained. Ceres was also called Hera for a short time in Germany; whereas in Greece, it is still called Demeter ...

it was reclassified as an asteroid — the first to be discovered. In 2006, Ceres was named a dwarf planet in response to the discovery of another object, Eris, that called into question how we ...

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

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 ...

There was a great deal of furor and fuss five years ago when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, but nobody paid much attention to the fact that at ...

We already know Ceres, the salt-spotted dwarf planet that rules the asteroid belt ... Dawn spacecraft around Ceres to check out a crater called Ernutet. There, they found evidence of organic ...

Also, a class of compounds called hydrates ... and it locks up one-third of the entire mass in the asteroid belt. Astronomers think Ceres is a protoplanet, the fossilized remains of a world ...

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This so-called “space weathering” can ... these organic molecules weren't delivered by any asteroid or comet and formed deep inside Ceres. Ceres was once covered with a huge ocean of salt ...