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 ...

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 ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

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

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

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 ...