Known by astronomers as 1 Ceres, it was the very first minor planet discovered. As big across as Texas, Ceres' nearly spherical body has a differentiated interior - meaning that, like Earth, it has denser material at the core and lighter minerals nea

Discover Ceres. The first asteroid to be discovered, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the main asteroid belt. Ceres was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi, a monk in Sicily and the founding director of the Palermo Astronomical Observat

Ceres Pictures Gallery - Color View of Ceres - This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope color image of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. -

Ceres is the Latin name for the goddess of grain who is called Demeter in Greek. Demeter and her daughter Persephone (Proserpina) is connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Ceres, the name of an asteroid that may become a planet, is also the name of a Roman goddess associated with the Greek goddess Demeter. Ceres, whose name gives

The Texas-sized asteroid Ceres, about 930 kilometers (580 miles) across, was the first asteroid ever detected. Ceres was identified in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, a monk in Sicily and the founding director of the Palermo Astronomical Observat

Ceres Pictures Gallery - Ceres' Layers - Ceres may have a

Ceres Pictures Gallery - Dawn at Ceres - Artist concept showing the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres. - NASA/JPL

Ceres Pictures Gallery - Largest Asteroid May Be Mini Planet with Water Ice - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took these images of Ceres during its 9-hour rotation. - NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University),

Ceres Pictures Gallery - Hubble Images of Asteroids Help Astronomers Prepare for Spacecraft Visit - These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter.