Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission embarked on a 4.3 billion-mile journey to two of the largest objects in our solar system's main asteroid belt. Ceres is about 592 miles across, 14 times ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

With this structure, the dwarf planet would get gradually muddier and less frozen at lower depths. A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at Ceres' surface between 2015 and 2018 through the Dawn mission.

"But our results show otherwise." Ceres was explored by NASA's Dawn mission, which arrived there in March 2015 and orbited the dwarf planet for about three and a half years.

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft officially began its approach to the dwarf planet Ceres this week. Ceres was the first asteroid discovered and at 590 miles (950 km) across, the ...

For context, the diameter of Ceres is approximately 940 kilometers (584 miles). The data used for this study was obtained by NASA’s Dawn mission, which orbited Ceres between 2015 and 2018, collecting ...

On its way to Ceres, the ion engine-powered craft swing by the asteroid Vesta. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt at nearly 600 miles in diameter, but Vesta is no lightweight at 326 ...

NASA put together this animated version of a fly-over of Ceres using their new low-altitude images from the planet, just 900 miles overhead. So, what are we seeing here that we weren’t before?

Vesta and Ceres are the largest bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that's littered with space rocks that never quite bloomed into full-fledged planets. As cosmic time capsules ...