The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

This dwarf planet, positioned between Mars and ... of organic material—key building blocks of life. NASA's Dawn mission, which orbited Ceres from 2015 to 2018, revealed surprising details ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

On Friday, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Ceres to solve some of these mysteries. It’s the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and also the first time a spacecraft has orbited ...

The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

What should NASA explore next ... Ceres Sample Return would recover material from the dwarf planet Ceres. The Comet Surface Sample Return would do the same, but from a comet—an agglomeration ...

Let’s take a closer look at this former planet at the edge of our Solar System. Since it received its new status of a “dwarf planet ... Source: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Since Pluto is so far ...