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 ...

After a 7-1/2 year journey through the solar system, NASA's Dawn spacecraft settled into orbit Friday around the mini-planet Ceres that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mission ...

In 1801, astronomers discovered the first body in the Asteroid Belt, a region in the Solar System between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Called Ceres, it was initially, and understandably, classified ...

Scientists considered Pluto to be a planet when it was discovered, but it later became the first dwarf planet. It’s not the closest one to Earth, though. Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest object ...

PASADENA, Calif. - The dwarf planet Ceres was long believed to be a barren rock, but new images from NASA’s Dawn mission proves otherwise. Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. This has led some scientists to speculate that the ...

Spots were speculated to be everything from alien cities to geysers. — -- Scientists have finally cracked the mystery of the unexplained lights on the dwarf planet Ceres that were speculated to ...

PASADENA, Calif. - The dwarf planet Ceres was long believed to be a barren rock, but new images from NASA’s Dawn mission proves otherwise. Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...