At first glance, the dwarf planet Ceres hardly inspires dreams of alien life. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, it is a frigid, gray world, battered and cracked. Its surface ...

The dwarf planet Ceres looks cold and dead, but a billion or so years after its formation, it may have had a warm interior that made it habitable. Sam Courville at Arizona State University says he can ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been considered a quiet, frozen remnant of the early solar system. With its airless surface, icy shell, and ...

The search for aliens has led astronomers to scour the farthest reaches of the cosmos for signs of life. But a new study suggests that we might not need to look so far from home. According to NASA ...

Eighth-magnitude dwarf planet 1 Ceres is passing close to a background star tonight, just 6’ southwest of a slightly fainter 9th-magnitude sun. Both are about ¼° north of an easy-to-spot pair of stars ...

Dwarf planet 1 Ceres, the ruler of the main belt, is currently making its way through Cetus the Whale. Tonight Ceres is approaching the double star HD 2447. The best time to catch the scene is around ...