Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth. All of the other dwarf planets in the solar system are very far away, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

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 is the closest dwarf planet to the sun. It has a diameter of over 620 miles and is located in the asteroid belt. For a long time, it has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres, hides ...

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.

Related: Dwarf planet Ceres could be a great place to hunt for alien life. Here's why. Yet Dawn found that there were plenty of stark craters with steep walls on Ceres' battered terrain.

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 ...