Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

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.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

The deposits could prove crucial in comparing the evolved water in the dwarf planet Ceres—located in the Asteroid Belt—and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, since researchers believe these icy ...