Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

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The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

In prior missions, traces of organic materials were identified on the surfaces of other celestial bodies, such as Enceladus ...

With a diameter of 1000 kilometres, Ceres was, however, too small to close that gap on its own. So German astronomers continued their search. Working together as a 'celestial police force' they noted ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...