Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres, long believed to be a rocky object with minimal ice, was once an ancient water world. According to a study published in Nature ...

The idea of Ceres having water is not entirely new. The dwarf planet was discovered in 1801, then it was just regarded as an asteroid, and since 2005, it has been officially regarded as a dwarf planet ...

The tiny dwarf planet has continued to baffle ... It was this salt that enabled the formation of fluids on Ceres. That's because when you add salt to water, it lowers the temperature at which ...

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 ...

It is assumed that only a very small percentage of water ice has remained ... in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this discovery, eighteenth ...