Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

When astronomers realized that Ceres had many "relatives" in roughly the same region of the solar system, they began calling them asteroids or minor planets. But as you can see in the table at the ...

For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt. In the 1800s, Ceres was a small ...

It is believed to be bigger than Ceres, the largest known asteroid ... find something like this after all these years." Such "minor planets" are classified by researchers in the field as Trans ...

Asteroids, also known as minor planets, differ greatly in shape and size ... in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this discovery, eighteenth ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is finally giving scientists on Earth a truly close up view of the dwarf planet Ceres' distinctive bright spots, and they remain stubbornly mysterious. A new photo showing ...

This improved understanding could even prove useful for future space missions to obtain samples from other planetary bodies like Ceres, a dwarf planet that may have supported ... lower stages usually ...