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.

Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments that could potentially be ...

When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

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

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which orbited Ceres between 2015 and 2018, previously revealed some surprises about this frozen ...

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars ...

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

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

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.