The dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt but looks nothing like its neighbors. In a new paper, scientists propose an explanation for the conundrum.

There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, agriculture, and harvests. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun. It has ...

Return to Ceres: This dwarf planet could contain the clues to life’s origins Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

But Ceres is different from its smaller brethren: It’s a dwarf planet that never quite made it to the big leagues — though it probably underwent some of the processes that the full planets did.

Ceres, the closest dwarf planet to Earth, may be wrinkling as it shrinks, a new study finds. With a width of about 585 miles (940 kilometers), Ceres is both a dwarf planet and the largest member ...

Asteroid impacts on dwarf planet Ceres influenced the presence of organic aliphatic molecules, according to new research. Numerous asteroids that have punctured the surface of dwarf planet Ceres ...

Ceres has a lot more in common with Pluto than an asteroid and scientists plan to research it a lot more. NASA has been interested in the weird dwarf planet for a while.

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

Ceres' location in the asteroid belt is intriguing because the dwarf planet is so much bigger and rounder than its companions. Even the 330-mile-wide (530 km) Vesta is irregularly shaped.

Dwarf planets like Ceres have cold hearts. They don't experience tidal heating and, lacking an atmosphere, don't trap any heat either. Without heat, water freezes out.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

Still, Ceres remains a dwarf planet. Perhaps as it should, given Pluto's relegation to dwarf planet — Pluto is 14 times larger than Ceres.