Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and ... on Ceres holds profound implications for the field of astrobiology, which seeks to understand ...

Ceres was the first asteroid discovered ... "It's so large, it has enough of a gravitational field to pull itself into a round shape, unlike most other asteroids, which just look like potatoes ...

Variations in Ceres’ gravitational field back that up ... and it locks up one-third of the entire mass in the asteroid belt. Astronomers think Ceres is a protoplanet, the fossilized remains ...

this vast debris field has come to be known as the asteroid belt. So matters rested until the recent controversy over the status of Pluto erupted onto the public scene. Like Ceres, Pluto was for ...

Ceres sits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... It was sitting in a vast field of rocky bodies, or asteroids. Ceres was named the first and the largest among them.

“Its evolution is more complex than what we envisioned.” Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt, the field of rocks that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The Dawn ...

The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between ... dwarf planet's gravity field also suggest a density ...

Meanwhile, the people of Ceres, who live in the the largest space station within the asteroid belt, labor to supply the rest of the solar system with water. Naturally the folks of Ceres are fed up ...

Ceres, the tiny asteroid belt world we’ve come to know ... And with the gravity field data, we’ll get a clearer picture of Ceres’ interior, including its layering structure and any ...

The object that moves, or disappears out of the field, is the asteroid. As it happens, you can also observe Ceres for yourself this autumn. As September opens, Ceres is situated in the ...

To figure out whether the internal liquid is water or something sludgier, Dawn will have to take note of Ceres’s gravitational field. Asteroid impacts deform Ceres’s core, changing its ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...