New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances on August 20, NASA researchers unveiled new insights about the potential habitability of the dwarf planet Ceres. According to data gathered from ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

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. Sam Courville at Arizona State University says he can ...