That's the name of a massive impact site on the dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt.In the mission's last months, Dawn flew just 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and most theories surrounding its creation suggest that it was also born there.Yet, this dwarf planet has some strange ...

Ceres has a lot more in common with Pluto than an asteroid and scientists plan to research it a lot more. NASA has been interested in the weird dwarf planet for a while.

Return to Ceres: This dwarf planet could contain the clues to life’s origins Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

The results hint that Ceres may have enough internal water, organic molecules, and the energy source needed for life to exist on the dwarf planet.Of course, that alone doesn't suggest the dwarf ...

Sep. 27, 2024 — A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not ...

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.

Ceres’ status as a full-fledged planet was almost immediately diminished with the discovery in 1802 of an orbitally similar object called Pallas, followed by the discoveries of Juno in 1804 and ...

A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at Ceres' surface between 2015 and 2018 through the Dawn mission.Those observations revealed the dwarf planet's unusual bright patches as a salty crust of ...

Still, Ceres remains a dwarf planet. Perhaps as it should, given Pluto's relegation to dwarf planet — Pluto is 14 times larger than Ceres.

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...