Ceres was once considered just another object in the asteroid belt—but the more we studied it, the stranger it became. From ...

Astronomy buffs know very well that asteroids and comets are entirely different animals. The former are made mostly of rock and metal, and live in a kind of no-man’s land between Mars and Jupiter. The ...

On the first day of the nineteenth century, an Italian astronomer by the name of Piazzi discovered the asteroid Ceres, one of the thousands of little celestial bodies revolving around the sun between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...

Sunday: Asteroids are always visible in the sky, and the largest asteroid — Ceres — is currently in the southwest, but a brighter asteroid is visible in the southeast. The asteroid Vesta is visible ...