Though it's less than 600 miles wide, Ceres appears to be rich in water ice, and new research from Purdue University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is helping to confirm it was once drenched ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...