Ceres was once considered a minor stop in the asteroid belt—but the more scientists studied it, the stranger it became. With ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...

The scars on Ceres should have softened by now. That was the long-running problem. If the dwarf planet’s crust held a great deal of ice, many of its craters should have slowly sagged over geologic ...