A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

This month binocular and small telescope observers of Colorado skies will have a unique opportunity to observe a peripheral player in the ongoing controversy over the status of the outer solar system ...

Ceres always seemed rather out of place. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new computer simulation suggests that dwarf planet ...

Jupiter stands south of Pollux in Gemini, rising in the east during the early-morning hours. The gas giant can’t be missed, glowing at magnitude –2.2 to the lower right of Castor and Pollux, the Twins ...

Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early Solar System. A study modeling the cratering history of the largest two objects in ...

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 ...

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt -- the region between Jupiter and Mars speckled with hundreds ...

The dwarf planet 1 Ceres (magnitude 7.6) will be observable in proximity to the 5th-magnitude star Phi2 Ceti, positioned 10’ southeast on the initial evening and 10’ southwest the subsequent night, ...

A dwarf planet called Ceres could offer some amazing insights into our quest to discover alien life within our solar system. The small planet is located near Mars, and a new study showcases that the ...

As the moon reaches its new phase on Tuesday (March 21), the dwarf planet Ceres will lie opposite the sun in Earth's sky, in an arrangement astronomers call "opposition." Ceres will be visible for ...

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 ...