The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 4:07 a.m. Eastern ... to the Tiangong space station and the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return mission, expected to launch around May.

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 ...

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun. It has a diameter of over 620 miles and is located in the asteroid belt. For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid ...

Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile and agricultural, Ceres is technically ... above ground and 1/2 below, giving rise to seasons. This myth and this asteroid illustrate themes ...

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 ...

Ground-based observations still show water trapped inside clay minerals on the asteroid’s surface, and models suggest that Ceres harbors a layer of ice or even liquid water beneath its solid crust.

For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt. In the 1800s, Ceres was a small ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...