Ceres’ strange white spots. The Dawn mission was launched in 2007 with an unconventional ion engine that let it first orbit Vesta, the asteroid belt’s second largest object, for 14 months ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual "inhabitant" of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its ...

They think it got moved to the asteroid belt in a solar system reshuffle. Ceres stands out in the main asteroid belt for many reasons. It’s the largest object there with a 296-mile radius.

Artist's concept of a narrow asteroid belt potentially around another sunlike star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For years now, there have been claims from the astronomical fringes that our solar ...

One potential resource is Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt, comprising up to a third of the belt's mass. Once labeled an asteroid, Ceres is now classified as a "dwarf planet," a ...

Indeed, Ceres' location within the main asteroid belt puts it close to other C-type asteroids. But most C-type asteroids don't have that much water and don't have so many clays.

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 ...

Top: Ceres formed in the main asteroid belt, and ammonia was incorporated from the solar system's outer reaches. Bottom: Ceres itself formed far from th (L. Giacomini) ...

The biggest asteroid belt member, and the only dwarf planet found there, is Ceres, which is about 1000 km across. The total mass of the Asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0 to 3.6×1021 kilograms ...

Tiny dwarf planet Ceres sits between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, and this small body turns out to be full of surprises. A new analysis of data collected by NASA’s Dawn mission, which ...

Ceres' location in the asteroid belt is intriguing because the dwarf planet is so much bigger and rounder than its companions. Even the 330-mile-wide (530 km) Vesta is irregularly shaped.