For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they can ...

This leads to an interesting hypothesis. If the Earth was sterilized by colossal impacts, but Ceres hosted life which survived, could the dwarf planet have reseeded our world with life ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

Here’s how it works. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth and the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres has had multiple ...

This is Ceres: a 590-mile wide ball of rock and ice that lies in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun about 257 million miles away from Earth. It’s not technically an asteroid, but a dwarf planet ...

S ix years ago, NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt. Since then, Ceres —a water ...

Ceres is an intriguing in-between world, when talking about planets and asteroids: it's a quarter of the size of Earth's moon, but has slightly more gravity than the average space rock.

In her devastation at the loss of her daughter, Ceres ceased the growth of everything on earth — leaving the world all but barren. Brokered by Zeus, a deal was struck to satisfy both deities.

This discovery that Ceres has a dirty ice crust is led by Ian Pamerleau, PhD student, and Mike Sori, assistant professor in Purdue's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences who ...

He says this means Ceres still could have "a water ocean where life could have originated early in the history of the solar system." This leads to an interesting hypothesis. If the Earth was ...