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 ...

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 ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

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 ...

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 robot ended up in the Asteroid Belt, an expansive and mysterious zone between Mars and Jupiter, where it studied the region's two largest objects: Ceres and Vesta. Dawn reached Vesta first ...

Such as: On this date, Jan. 1, 1801, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the asteroid/dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres has been the ...

Such as: On this date, Jan. 1, 1801, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the asteroid/dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres has been ...

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 ...