Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

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.

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Organic ...

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.

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.

For the current study (AGU Advances, "Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?"), the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its ...