Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

A new study suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres once supplied a steady stream of chemical energy and may have been habitable.

New research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions ...

The largest body in the main belt comes to a brief standstill in the sky, visible before sunrise in Cetus the Whale.

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed ...

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

Ceres is an intriguing in-between world, when talking about planets and asteroids: it's a quarter of the size of Earth's moon, but has slightly more gravity than the average space rock. As such ...

Ceres may, in fact, have as much fresh water as Earth, have Earth-like polar caps, and might even have a sub-surface liquid ocean layer, like Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Ceres is about 592 miles across, 14 times smaller than Pluto. Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit two deep-space destinations.