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

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 ...

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

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

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere.

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

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra ... compounds were formed in the interior of Ceres and brought to the surface by the ice volcanoes. The MPS team used AI to ...

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.

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.

Now, using AI, scientists have reanalyzed the entire surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. While previous studies identified organic compounds in specific regions, AI allowed for a systematic ...

Scientists are therefore interested in the origin of Ceres’s organic components. Did they originate locally in the asteroid belt? Or did they arrive later? Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of ...