NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now closer to Ceres than ever before. Ceres is the largest known asteroid and the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. After Dawn entered orbit around Ceres in March ...

The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this ...

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Dawn captured a full ~9-hour-long rotation of Ceres in this series taken on Feb. 19, 2015 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 km). The images have a ...

Ceres (pronounced "series") is in the asteroid belt -- but it's not just an asteroid. Technically, Ceres is also a dwarf planet (the only one inside the orbit of Pluto), making it an improbable body ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been sending back images of the dwarf planet Ceres for several months now, but the latest are the clearest ones to date. Dawn entered close orbit of Ceres back on March 6th.

Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest known object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And now we know it may be an ocean world with intriguing geologic activity taking place on and just ...

THE ASTROID BELT (WHTM) — On September 27, 2007, a Delta II rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying a spacecraft that had an unprecedented mission, and an unusual way of getting where it had ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.