Dwarf planet Ceres is a really icy place, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows × Findings based on data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft may fill out a portrait of Ceres.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres on March 1, 2015 when it was about 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet. The spacecraft arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015.

Another dwarf planet is stealing some of Pluto's thunder. New images of Ceres were beamed back by NASA's Dawn spacecraft; they are stirring up more questions than answers. The images show some ...

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 Dawn craft will circle the dwarf planet for more ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is one that we don’t hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf planet Ceres and it’s been (very) slowly getting closer ...

New NASA images reveal the bright craters on dwarf planet Ceres in stunning detail. The pictures from NASA’s Dawn mission were taken 240 miles from the planet’s surface offering an incredible ...

Ceres: A strange dwarf planet "Dawn accomplished far more than we hoped when it embarked on its extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition," Mission Director Marc Rayman of NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

After nearly eight year journey, NASA spacecraft will reach Ceres on Friday. — -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday in what has been a nearly eight year ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt ...

Since arriving at its destination in March, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has circled Ceres six times, sending back to Earth the most high definition images of the largest object in the solar system's ...

After a nearly eight-year journey, Dawn will reach its destination on Friday. — -- Are we there yet? NASA's Dawn spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday after what has been a ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has snapped the best images to date of the dwarf planet Ceres, bringing mysterious fuzzy features spotted on the icy little world’s surface into sharper focus.