Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's dawn spacecraft has been taking photos of the fascinating dwarf planet Ceres. Here's some of the planet's most interesting features. Produced by Grace Raver.

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

"For Ceres, the story started in 2016, when the Dawn spacecraft ... is a challenge that had rarely been taken on. As part of the new study, PSI scientist Robert Gaskell developed a new technique ...

These new findings help to understand where and ... craters nearby," says Martin Hoffmann from MPS. During the Dawn mission, Ceres had turned out to be an extraordinary, cryovolcanic world.

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ... but this new AI-powered study suggests a different explanation. "Of course, the first assumption [was] that Ceres' unique ...

These new findings help to understand where and ... Impacts from distant neighbors During the Dawn mission, Ceres had turned out to be an extraordinary, cryovolcanic world. Under its surface ...

Spectroscopic observations with Dawn show that ... It was on the night of New Year in Palermo in 1801 – in what was then the southernmost observatory in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe ...