Assuming funding and selection goes forward, the Ceres sample return mission focuses on the youngest region on the dwarf planet — Occator crater.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few ...

Data from a now defunct NASA spacecraft has revealed a massive internal reservior of organic material within the second wettest solar system body, Ceres.

Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known due to its brief categorization as a regular planet. Long before it ...

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The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1000 kilometres and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series ‘The Expanse’, Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so called ...

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Numerous asteroids that have punctured the surface of dwarf planet Ceres also appear to have influenced its reservoir of precious organic molecules. In 2017, scientists studying data sent home by NASA ...

Watch live online as the dwarf planet Ceres swoops in front of the 'grand design' spiral galaxy Messier 100 this weekend.

Ceres, once considered an asteroid, is now classified as a dwarf planet. It’s nowhere near the Kuiper belt; instead, Ceres is in the main asteroid belt, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

Scientists speculate that the dwarf planet Ceres, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could be hospitable for humans.