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 ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, ... Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and ...

A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at Ceres' surface between 2015 and 2018 through the Dawn mission.Those observations revealed the dwarf planet's unusual bright patches as a salty crust of ...

The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is likely made from a dirty frozen ocean ...

Dwarf planet Ceres: Building ... continues by saying that a future lander mission would be needed to detect organic material from the interior of Ceres. About the mission. NASA's Dawn ...

2017 video discussing aliphatic organics found on Ceres. For the study, the team conducted hypervelocity impact experiments on the organic compound, gilsonite, using the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range ...

Later, research revealed Ceres to be significantly different from its surrounding space rocks, so it was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006, according to NASA.

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

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 ...