While the 62-foot-tall (19 meters), four-stage Ceres-1 can send 880 pounds (400 kilograms) to low Earth orbit (LEO), the 138-ft-tall (42 m) Pallas-1 will be capable of sending up to 17,630 pounds ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around the giant asteroid Ceres for more than a year. During that time, it has spotted features on this mysterious world ...

It rotates around its own axis in five hours and 20 minutes, and requires 3.6 Earth years to complete an orbit around the Sun ... astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

including Ceres, which can be found in the asteroid belt. Asteroids are made of metals and rocky material. There are many asteroids in our solar system which orbit the Sun in oval or egg-shaped ...