Prior study of Ceres, much of which came from NASA's Dawn space mission, has shown there is organic material on its surface.In this new effort, the researchers investigated the history of ...

R ecent 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 ...

“On Ceres, ice is not just localized to a few craters. It’s everywhere, and nearer to the surface with higher latitudes,” GRaND principal investigator Thomas Prettyman, who’s based at the ...

The dwarf planet Ceres may have a mottled past and a strangely active present, according to data sent back by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.

Mystery of Ceres deepens: Material on the dwarf planet's surface is not what scientists expected. Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest object in our solar system's asteroid belt ...

WASHINGTON – Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is an “ocean world” with a big reservoir of salty water under its frigid surface, scientists said in find… ...

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.

Ceres, with bright spots in its Occator Crater, is seen here in a "false color" image that reflects its surface composition. New analysis says the spots are caused by a type of salt.

By looking at how the surface of Ceres reflects sunlight, scientists think they have found a way to use ground-based telescopes to study daily changes on the small, distant dwarf planet.

Grainy as they are, the new views of the 590-mile-wide world are already turning up unexpected features on the surface. “What we expect at Ceres is to be surprised, so it’s getting off to a ...

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 ...