The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

"Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more like ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice ...

The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres, hides small underground lakes of salt water ocean beneath an icy surface crusted with salts and stained with hydrocarbons.

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1000 kilometres and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series ‘The Expanse’, Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so called ...

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 ...

Astronomers know quite a lot about Ceres thanks to NASA's Dawn mission, which orbited first the dwarf planet, then asteroid Vesta, the second largest object in the asteroid belt, in the 2010s.

During the giant planet growth stage, it was pulled into the asteroid Belt as a migrant from the outer Solar System, and survived for 4.5 billion years until now,” Ribeiro de Sousa said.

Fans of the show The Expanse will undoubtedly know about Ceres Station, with its six million inhabitants, artificial gravity, extensive tube train network, and the hundreds of ships docked there on ...

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.