An artist's illustration of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is en route to the asteroid Vesta (left) and dwarf planet Ceres (right). Credit: William K. HArtmann/UCLA.

Scientists theorize life on Earth could have come from the dwarf planet Ceres. The distant world Ceres, the smallest known dwarf planet in the solar system, lies within the asteroid belt. It was called a planet after its discovery in 1801, then later downgraded to asteroid status. With the latest planet definition from the International Astronomical Union, the round object is now considered a dwarf planet. Is there a chance that this exotic world is home to extraterrestrial organisms?

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Scientists theorize life on Earth could have come from the dwarf planet Ceres.

Astrobiologists hope to find life elsewhere in the universe, or possibly even in our own cosmic neighborhood, the solar system. Their efforts are usually concentrated on worlds such as the planet Mars, or icy moons like Europa. However, there are other, less conventional locations in the solar system where scientists think life may be found.

At the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life conference in Florence, Italy, Joop Houtkooper from the University of Giessen divulged a theory that life could have originated on the asteroid Ceres. [...]

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