The largest body in the main belt comes to a brief standstill in the sky, visible before sunrise in Cetus the Whale.

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

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

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

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

Ceres is an intriguing in-between world, when talking about planets and asteroids: it's a quarter of the size of Earth's moon, but has slightly more gravity than the average space rock. As such ...