A NASA spacecraft has detected carbon-based materials, similar to what may have been the building blocks for life on Earth, on the Texas-sized dwarf planet Ceres that orbits between Mars and ...

The dwarf planet Ceres looks cold and dead, but a billion or so years after its formation, it may have had a warm interior that made it habitable.

Scientists have made a puzzling discovery while studying the surface of dwarf planet Ceres: large craters thought to have formed on Ceres billions of years ago are nowhere to be found. WSJ's ...

According to NASA researchers, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may once have been home to microbial life.

Embedded in the asteroid belt is a dwarf planet that features a 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) pyramid-shaped mountain and intriguing bright patches that scientists are still trying to understand ...

NASA has captured the closest images ever taken of dwarf planet Ceres, which lies between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. The Dawn mission spacecraft was still 1,470 kilometres away from ...

Research obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows that Ceres, the dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, has 'liquid on a large scale' Author of the article: You can save this article by ...

Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano-like ice geysers on its surface. Using European ...

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 findings that raise ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...

Under the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are strange jumbled zones that are mixes of ice and rock, a new study finds. This research suggests that Ceres might still be warmed by radioactive material ...