NASA has authorized a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...

Journey back to 2015 when the Dawn spacecraft first orbited Ceres, the colossal dwarf planet in our inner solar system. Dive ...

New research has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be a geologically active body with ice volcanoes and an ancient ocean. Located in between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is the largest object in the ...

As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included two successful extended missions at Ceres, it will continue to explore — collecting images and ...

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 largest of the Main Belt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Illustration of a Mars transit habitat and nuclear propulsion system that could one day take astronauts to Mars. Credit: NASA For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...