(The asteroid is called 1999 AT10). Ceres, like Vesta, is a long-time inhabitant of the asteroid belt. It also has many craters on its surface. Why haven't scientists seen any "ceroids" associated ...

We already know Ceres, the salt-spotted dwarf planet that rules the asteroid belt ... Dawn spacecraft around Ceres to check out a crater called Ernutet. There, they found evidence of organic ...

it was reclassified as an asteroid — the first to be discovered. In 2006, Ceres was named a dwarf planet in response to the discovery of another object, Eris, that called into question how we ...

Newly discovered materials on the distant asteroid Ceres leads to speculation that aliens may have once called it home. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI ...

The asteroid belt is a pretty interesting place ... but Ceres was eventually retained. Ceres was also called Hera for a short time in Germany; whereas in Greece, it is still called Demeter ...

It originally was called a planet, then later an asteroid and now it’s called a dwarf planet. Its name is Ceres (pronounced like series) and you’ll likely be hearing a lot more about it in the ...

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 ...

In the television series "The Expanse," Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so-called 'belters': in this series, which is based on real physics, humans colonize the asteroid belt for mining.

Ceres’ status as a full-fledged planet was almost immediately diminished with the discovery in 1802 of an orbitally similar object called Pallas ... The term asteroid derives from the Greek ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...