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.

Water was coming off Ceres at a rate of 6 kilograms, or about 13 pounds, per second -– and the scientists think there could be so much ice packed in the dwarf planet’s mantle that its melted ...

Put Ceres down on the list of places in the solar system that could have once harbored life or may be hiding it now, alongside Mars, Titan, Enceladus, Europa and some other far-out locales.