Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

After their close conjunction on March 1st, Venus and Jupiter will head their separate ways. Dwarf planet Ceres is a great skywatching target this month and find out the phases of the month.

Molecules Crucial For Life Formed In Water On Dwarf Planet Ceres The origin of organics on the largest body in the asteroid belt is now a bit clearer.

Numerous asteroids that have punctured the surface of dwarf planet Ceres also appear to have influenced its reservoir of precious organic molecules. In 2017, scientists studying data sent home by NASA ...

Astro Bob: Dwarf planet Ceres photobombs galaxy M100 On Sunday night, March 26, Ceres smiles for the camera right in front of a galaxy 55 million light-years away.

Dwarf planets simply aren’t massive enough to do this. Ceres orbits within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of 257 million miles (413 million km) from the sun.

By the time the mission ended in October 2018, the orbiter had dipped to less than 22 miles (35 kilometers) above Ceres’ surface, revealing crisp details of the bright sodium-carbonate deposits ...

Scientists have spotted the ghosts of nearly two dozen ice volcanoes on dwarf planet Ceres. Found using topographic maps from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the slumped remains of once-grand cones ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet in the Asteroid Belt, may hide a salty ocean. NASA's ion-propelled Dawn probe is getting closer to Ceres than ever before, which will allow the probe to take incredible new ...

While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt. Unlike other rocky bodies in the asteroid belt, Ceres is an oblate spheroid, rounded with a ...