The dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been considered a quiet, frozen remnant of the early solar system. With its airless surface, icy shell, and ...

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Dawn, which left Earth in 2007 to study dwarf planets in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is due to enter Ceres’ orbit next month. Earlier images of the planet showed only one bright spot, ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...

New research has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be a geologically active body with ice volcanoes and an ancient ocean. Located in between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is the largest object in the ...

The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest known object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And now we know it may be an ocean world with intriguing geologic activity taking place on and just ...

Exciting space news! Astronomers have found evidence that Ceres, a dwarf planet (a.k.a. large asteroid) in between Mars and Jupiter, has water vapor plumes. The discovery, not unlike that of Jupiter's ...