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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA unveiled a new image of the dwarf planet Ceres that "is like nothing that humanity has ever seen before." In addition to being a dwarf planet, Ceres is also the largest known asteroid, with a ...

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 ...

So, Ceres is an ocean world, at least to some degree. All we can say right now is that its reservoir of salty water is regional, but it might be more expansive. This raises the question of whether ...

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.