"A fragment of an asteroid may have collided with Ceres about 6,000 years ago, which created a temporary water atmosphere. Once a water atmosphere is generated, ice would condense in the cold ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

In the 1800s, Ceres was a small planet with ... One of those tricks includes a massive ice volcano called Ahuna Mons that spews boiling salt water. Published alongside six other studies on ...

The studies show that Ceres is about 10 percent water, now frozen into ice, according to physicist Thomas Prettyman of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, one of the researchers.

It is assumed that only a very small percentage of water ice has remained, which is why planetary researchers ... that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this ...

The idea of Ceres having water is not entirely new ... By supplying life support supplies and even fuel, in-situ resources like water ice could enable longer missions by eliminating the need to ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...