How would you like to see a dwarf planet? Pluto's the most famous, but it requires a good-sized telescope and a dark sky. There are currently five known dwarf planets. Of them only Ceres, which is ...

On Sunday night, March 26, Ceres smiles for the camera right in front of a galaxy 55 million light-years away. On Sunday night, March 26, the dwarf planet Ceres will pass directly in front of the ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. This has led some scientists to speculate that the ...

This month binocular and small telescope observers of Colorado skies will have a unique opportunity to observe a peripheral player in the ongoing controversy over the status of the outer solar system ...

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 rich ...

A recent research paper suggests that dwarf planet Ceres may have originated at the icy edges of the solar system. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is vastly different than its ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration. The space agency on Friday confirmed that the Dawn craft entered orbit around ...

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, said Scott King, a geoscientist in the Virginia Tech College of Science. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt — the region ...

The jagged terrain on this little world has a complicated origin story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Radioactive matter within ...

The Texas-sized dwarf planet Ceres may be among the smallest Solar System bodies with evidence of potential habitable environments, according to a collection of seven new complementary scientific ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft made this color closeup of cratered Ceres, the largest asteroid and also the only dwarf planet within the orbit of Neptune. You can see it as a faint “star” in binoculars in the ...