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

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.

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 ...

Colors reveal the elevations of craters and depressions on dwarf planet Ceres. The Kerwan Basin is just 177 miles wide, while the depression named Vendimia Planitia spreads about 460 miles across.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Viewers asked about the dwarf planet Ceres, what does it feel like to be in space and how many more years is Hubble going to be active? Viewers asked and Dean Regas answered.

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

On larger space rocks such as the dwarf planet Ceres, the team calculated that ... planning the next generation of planetary exploration missions," Kurosawa explains. This research was funded ...