If the asteroid Ceres struck Earth, the impact would incinerate the planet, rip away 10 km of crust, and block out the Sun.

A new study based on data from NASA's Dawn mission suggests that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may have ...

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

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Three of the others (Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) are even farther away from the Sun; only Ceres is in the inner solar system, ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

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

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

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.