Are all organisms on Earth, including humans, descendants of Ceres? This is an idea that Houtkooper had to pursue. "I looked at the different solar system bodies which either had or currently have ...

Six years ago, NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt. Since then, Ceres —a water ...

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 ...

Ceres is an intriguing in-between world, when talking about planets and asteroids: it's a quarter of the size of Earth's moon, but has slightly more gravity than the average space rock.

This discovery that Ceres has a dirty ice crust is led by Ian Pamerleau, PhD student, and Mike Sori, assistant professor in Purdue's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences who ...

NASA Langley’s CERES instrument is aboard the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), ... The Earth’s energy budget is a complicated thing. But understanding how much […] ...

At a NASA observatory in Hawaii, scientists have detected a new type of water-rich ancient asteroid similar to the dwarf planet Ceres in the main belt. The discovery adds to the mounting evidence ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't work on other bodies around the solar system. One of the most ...

It has even been suggested that life developed on Ceres long ago and went on to seed the Earth. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.