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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic ... on trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and far-away asteroids. These bodies are thought ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in ... this lethal object in Chernobyl ...