This photo of Ceres was taken by NASA's Dawn probe on Feb. 19, 2015, from a distance of about 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). On Friday morning (March 6), NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at Ceres ...

Asteroid impacts on dwarf planet Ceres influenced the presence of organic aliphatic molecules, according to new research. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

While New Horizons has gotten much of the planetary science glory this year after returning data from its spectacular Pluto flyby in 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has continued to plug along in orbit ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, researchers aren't sure what's causing the "bright spots" on its surface. The imaging orbiter snapped the above picture from ...

The brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres are seen in this image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 6. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) ...