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

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun. It has a diameter of over 620 miles and is located in the asteroid belt. For a ...

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

Looking for something to do this afternoon? Why not watch history be made as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt between the ...

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 is a big mystery. The dwarf planet has raised all sorts of questions since scientists have gotten to see it up close. And this mystery may be the biggest. Produced By Matt Johnston.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's dawn spacecraft has been taking photos of the fascinating dwarf planet Ceres. Here's some of the planet's most interesting features. Produced by Grace Raver.

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 ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

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.

Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris, according to NASA. What happened to Pluto? Why isn't Pluto classified as a planet? In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet when the ...