Those with which we are more familiar are in almost all cases crater-strewn irregularly shaped bodies that can even have tiny moons. Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few ...

In prior missions, traces of organic materials were identified on the surfaces of other celestial bodies, such as Enceladus and Titan, moons of Saturn, and now Ceres joins the list. The detection ...

But what makes Ceres even more intriguing is the presence of organic material—key building blocks of life. NASA's Dawn ...