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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around the giant asteroid Ceres for more than a year. During that time, it has spotted features on this mysterious world ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's ... floors in 1 day’: The ...

The images hail from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which orbits the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The space agency said they're among the most detailed views yet of ...