Put Ceres down on the list of places in the solar system that could have once harbored life or may be hiding it now, alongside Mars, Titan, Enceladus, Europa and some other far-out locales.

Even so, the brightness of this 550-mile-wide sphere only hovers just below naked eye visibility, but Ceres can be readily detected in binoculars or a small telescope as this planet/asteroid/dwarf ...

How to spot asteroid Ceres Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in space using a scale called "magnitude." On that scale, the lower the magnitude number of an object, the brighter it ...

If planetary scientist Bill McKinnon’s hunch is right, the largest asteroid in the solar system isn’t an asteroid at all. Ceres, as the 470-kilometer-wide object is called, may be a relative ...

Ceres was discovered in 1801 by the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi. A roughly spherical body measuring 606 by 565 miles, it was the first asteroid ever discovered and it is the largest in the ...

Embedded in the asteroid belt is a dwarf planet that features a 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) pyramid-shaped mountain and intriguing bright patches that scientists are still trying to understand.

A large crater called Occator has an especially bright pit, which probably contains water ice that vaporises as Ceres rotates into sunlight. The vapour produces haze clouds that appear and ...

Fans of the show The Expanse will undoubtedly know about Ceres Station, with its six million inhabitants, artificial gravity, extensive tube train network, and the hundreds of ships docked there on ...

Scientists have just found organic molecules on the Ceres, the dwarf planet hidden in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find is particularly exciting because this is the very first ...

Ceres Just Got A Lot More Interesting to Astrobiologists Indigenous organics have been found on the largest body in the asteroid belt.

Ceres is covered in countless small, young craters, but none are larger than 175 miles (280 kilometers) in diameter. To scientists, this is a huge mystery, given that the dwarf planet must have bee… ...

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 ...