Ceres was once considered just another object in the asteroid belt—but the more we studied it, the stranger it became. From mysterious bright spots to signs of water and possible internal activity, it ...

The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

The launch of NASA’s unmanned DAWN spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to two asteroids thought to have been ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...