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Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building blocks of life beneath its surface. Scientists have discovered ...
The dwarf planet Ceres may have a mottled past and a strangely active present, according to data sent back by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
A team of astrophysicists from several institutions in Italy, working with a colleague in the U.S., has found that aliphatic hydrocarbons observed on Ceres' surface have short lifetimes ...
There's water, water everywhere on the dwarf planet Ceres, according to new research. New observations have provided direct evidence that water ice is ubiquitous on the surface and shallow ...
Fingerprints of water Ceres is classified as both a dwarf planet and an asteroid. When the Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres in 2015, it found a nearly featureless world with a rocky surface.
The global distribution of the bright spots indicates that Ceres once harbored (and may still harbor) large amounts of water ice near its surface, study team members added.
Ceres, a dwarf planet in our solar system, may be a geologically active ocean world with salty water below its surface, according to new research.
Readings from NASA's Dawn orbiter support the view that a treasure trove of frozen water lies just beneath the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The mysterious bright spots glowed from Ceres' dark surface like alien headlights, capturing many Earthlings' imaginations. But researchers say they're the result of mineral salts, citing data ...
Ceres is the largest one — it has a surface area that’s about 38 percent of the size of the continental US. The second-largest one is Vesta, which Dawn visited a few years ago.