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.

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also, a class of compounds called hydrates ... and it locks up one-third of the entire mass in the asteroid belt. Astronomers think Ceres is a protoplanet, the fossilized remains of a world ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There was a great deal of furor and fuss five years ago when the International Astronomical ...

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 ...

The first asteroid found was Ceres in 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi, during the hunt for a missing planet suspected to exist between Mars and Jupiter. It wasn't called an asteroid at first, of course.

[Dwarf Planets of the Solar System ] How to spot asteroid Ceres Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in space using a scale called "magnitude." On that scale, the lower the magnitude ...