Ceres will be direct in Aries from Saturday, November 22, through March 15, helping you build a reciprocal, loving ...

The asteroid designation of Ceres was not addressed and so it can be assumed that Ceres has dual classification: an asteroid and a dwarf planet. It should be noted that all of the dwarf planets have ...

Join host Beth Johnson and guest Dr. Sam Courville, lead author of a new study on Ceres, as they dive into the possibility that the dwarf planet may have had the energy needed to support habitability ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has captured the first image of an asteroid taken from the ...

For decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent observations have unveiled a fascinating truth: this dwarf planet harbors a vast ocean ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...

At first glance, Ceres looks like one of the least likely places to harbor life. The dwarf planet, sitting quietly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is now a cold, nearly airless, grey ...

New NASA modeling suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres once supplied a steady stream of chemical energy – exactly the kind of “fuel” that some microbes use to live. There’s no evidence that life ever ...

Deep within the dwarf planet Ceres, situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, a chemical energy source once existed that may have made the now-cold planet habitable in the distant past.