Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...

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De Sanctis and her colleagues mixed up some homemade Ceres sediment in their lab, basing their recipe on data from NASA’s Dawn mission, which visited the dwarf planet in 2012. The mix included a ...

"Our interpretation of all this is that Ceres used to be an ocean world like Europa, but with a dirty, muddy ocean," said Sori. "As that muddy ocean froze over time, it created an icy crust with a ...

Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a | Space ...

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A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that Ceres is far icier than once thought and may have once been a muddy ...

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A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.