If planetary scientist Bill McKinnon’s hunch is right, the largest asteroid in the solar system isn’t an asteroid at all. Ceres, as the 470-kilometer-wide object is called, may be a relative ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of ...

Ceres has a relatively low density (2.2 grams per cubic centimeter) and a rather low albedo, meaning it's not very reflective. This makes Ceres very similar to the most common kind of asteroid ...

Ever since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft started snapping pictures of the dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt in 2015, scientists have been perplexed by the space rock’s relatively smooth surface ...

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 dominated by water ice.

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt -- the region between Jupiter and Mars speckled with ...

The asteroid probe Dawn is en-route to study the dwarf planet Ceres close-up in 2015. ... This has led to the model shown above, wherein Ceres has a rocky core about 750 km (465 mi) ...

With a diameter of about 585 miles (940 kilometers), Ceres is by far the largest member of the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.Although Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth ...

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.

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 dominated by water ice.