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

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks ... Nathues from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany in a statement.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.