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.

(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 ...

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 ...

it was reclassified as an asteroid — the first to be discovered. In 2006, Ceres was named a dwarf planet in response to the discovery of another object, Eris, that called into question how we ...

the largest asteroid in the solar system isn’t an asteroid at all. Ceres, as the 470-kilometer-wide object is called, may be a relative of Pluto that formed at the solar system’s fringes but ...

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 ...

It originally was called a planet, then later an asteroid and now it’s called a dwarf planet. Its name is Ceres (pronounced like series) and you’ll likely be hearing a lot more about it in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...