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

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

About the mission NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's scientific camera system ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a ...

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 ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are ... Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to explore the origin of organic material ...