Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist on Ceres, the closest frozen ocean world to Earth at an ...
New computer simulations show how a now-frozen ocean of water mixed with dirt and rock could explain geological features on ...
As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...
A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.
Recent studies suggest that the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may have once contained a muddy ocean beneath its surface. This new understanding ...
Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a | Space ...
A new study reveals that the dwarf planet Ceres is much icier than previously thought, possibly harboring a subsurface ocean.
Astronomers comparing data taken by Dawn with models of Ceres on Earth determined that organics on its surface came from ...
A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that Ceres is far icier than once thought and may have once been a muddy ...
"Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more like ...
Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...