Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile, and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded by astrologers as an asteroid. Demeter is the Greek equivalent of Ceres, and ...

Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the inner solar system, and new findings from the Dawn ...

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 ...

Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy ...

As a bench scientist, normally when I say "data will be forthcoming," there's a certain delay implied. Data will be forthcoming after a certain delta-t. But NASA apparently has different ideas. Well ...

Gather round and look skyward, folks. Ceres, our asteroid of loss and deliverance, is moving into the infernal heart of Aries this weekend. On Friday, May 16th, Ceres enters Aries at 2:16 PM EST, ...