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.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is finally giving scientists on Earth a truly close up view of the dwarf planet Ceres' distinctive bright spots, and they remain stubbornly mysterious. A new photo showing ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

For NASA, sending a crewed mission ... for multi-planet exploration." More information: Conceptual Design of a Multiplanetary Mission Architecture for Human Exploration of Mars and Ceres.