Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf ...

For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt. In the 1800s, Ceres was a small ...

It was on the night of New Year in Palermo in 1801 – in what was then the southernmost observatory in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007 ...

The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Ceres Sample Return would recover material from the dwarf planet Ceres. The Comet Surface Sample Return would do the same, but from a comet—an agglomeration of ice and dust flying through space.

Caption This artist's impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. It shows the very bright ...