particularly after NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave us our first good look at Ceres, which the probe orbited between 2015 and 2018. On known icy ocean worlds such as Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede ...

this ocean would have frozen, leaving behind an icy crust impregnated with rocky material. Geological formations such as pits and domes support this theory. The team based their research on data ...

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. Given the ...