A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers reveal. A new study finds that Ceres, which sits in the asteroid belt between ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

"Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more like ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, may be an ocean world-at least in the sense that the apparently rocky surface may ...

Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...

modelling suggests 1 . The work reconciles conflicting evidence regarding the ice content of Ceres. Ceres orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Determining its composition ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres ...

The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is likely made from a dirty frozen ocean ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

The first asteroid to be discovered was 1 Ceres in 1801 by astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi. What is the largest asteroid in the solar system? The largest and biggest asteroid in the solar system ...