The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series "The Expanse," Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Asteroid belt’s only dwarf planet doesn’t look like we expected Less water overall, but hints of liquid brines in recent past. John Timmer – Jun 29, 2016 1:00 pm | 16 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though Ceres is the largest asteroid belt object, its gravity is still only less than 3 percent of Earth's gravity. Yet, Ceres is "one of the few asteroids you could probably walk around on ...