The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

Data from NASA's Dawn space probe calls into question assumptions about the origin of Ceres in the outer solar system. The ...

Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, about 590 miles (950 km ... and the invention of the telescope added the Asteroid Belt, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and many of these worlds' moons. The dawn of the space ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of frozen bodies orbiting the Sun, far beyond the Kuiper Belt. Using the Subaru ...

Ceres is about 1,000 km in diameter and accounts for a third of the mass in the main asteroid belt. It dwarfs most of the other bodies in the belt. Now we know that it's a planet—albeit a dwarf ...

As well as naming the planets and their relative order from the sun, other components of the solar system are considered, including the asteroid belt, the dwarf planets, and beyond to the Kuiper ...