The asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter might be holding the building blocks of life, according to a new study. The dwarf planet Ceres in the region has a hidden ocean which harbours ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

Join us this week as Mike shares what makes Ceres an interesting point of research in our solar system. Astro Brief is a ...

Dawn was a mission that explored Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the slightly smaller Vesta. It beamed its last data back to Earth 6 years ago ...

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 ...

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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 first asteroid to be discovered was 1 Ceres in 1801 by astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi. What is the largest asteroid in the solar system? The largest and biggest asteroid in the solar system ...

Even though Vesta and Ceres both populate the asteroid belt, they are very different ... In the first resolved image of Ceres, which was taken from a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers ...

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 ...

These researchers' findings, suggesting that organic materials were recently released to the surface of Ceres by asteroid impacts, are supported by separate results delivered by a team of Italian ...