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

Though it's less than 600 miles wide, Ceres appears to be rich in water ice, and new research from Purdue University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is helping to confirm it was once drenched ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres, long believed to be a rocky object with minimal ice, was once an ancient water world. According to a study published in Nature ...

Until now, researchers had assumed that the hydrocarbon compounds were formed in the interior of Ceres and brought to the surface by the ice volcanoes. The MPS team used AI to examine the entire ...

Ceres is a cryovolcanic world, where ice and other volatile substances are expelled by volcanic activity instead of molten rock. It is this volcanic activity that led scientists to previously ...

It is assumed that only a very small percentage of water ice has remained, which is why planetary researchers ... that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this ...

Ceres may hold more water than Earth, with a crust of mixed ice, dust, and rock that has preserved its rugged surface for billions of years, researchers suggest. Studies reveal that Ceres was once ...