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In March 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object ... but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search ...
The dwarf planet Ceres keeps looking better and better as ... but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov ...
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 ...
Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual "inhabitant" of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
A team of astronomers led by Benoit Carry of the Paris-Meudon Observatory used state-of-the-art ... of Ceres. The team also derived measurements of the dimension and shape of the dwarf planet ...
Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...
The Dawn spacecraft is out there studying Ceres, the strange dwarf planet that orbits between Mars and Jupiter. First, there were mysterious bright spots on the surface. And, now, a pyramid?
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has snapped the best images to date of the dwarf planet Ceres, bringing mysterious fuzzy features spotted on the icy little world’s surface into sharper focus.
OK, this is just too much. First, NASA’s Dawn probe spotted curiously sparkly bright spots on the surface of Ceres, the dwarf planet that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
As the moon reaches its new phase on Tuesday (March 21), the dwarf planet Ceres will lie opposite the sun in Earth's sky, in an arrangement astronomers call "opposition." Ceres will be visible for ...