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.

Instead, the dwarf planet's #cryovolcanism, in which salty brine rises from the body's interior to the surface, is not responsible for the organic deposits.

These findings help to understand where and how #habitable conditions could have arisen in the solar system.

#astrobiology
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-dwarf-planet-ceres-material-space.html