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

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

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

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

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

Ceres fared favourably in these calculations. Life on Ceres Finally, Houtkooper considered the possibility of organisms still being present on Ceres. "In the ocean, there could be life," he suggests.