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. In the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently released this stunning animation of the dwarf planet Ceres' mysterious white spots that scientists have only just begun to understand. Video courtesy ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to explore the origin of organic material on Ceres ...

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.

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...