You can see from the drawing that continuing Dawn’s counterclockwise trajectory brings the spacecraft around the side of Ceres that’s facing away from the Sun. Not a lot of good photo ops there.

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice ...

Back to Article List Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid belt Liquid water, once thought unique to Earth, may be common on icy worlds throughout the solar system.

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

On Friday, May 16th, Ceres enters Aries — here, the asteroid of loss and deliverance will reign and remain for nearly a year, until March 2026.

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1000 kilometres and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series ‘The Expanse’, Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so called ...

There's more to the dwarf planet Ceres than meets the eye. It contains a layer of salty water deep underground that can occasionally reach the surface.

Return to Ceres: This dwarf planet could contain the clues to life’s origins Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

As it happened, Ceres was well on its way to becoming a planet before it ran out of material to feed on. Bigger than an asteroid, but smaller than a planet, scientists call it a protoplanet.

Not all asteroids are planet-killers — most are tiny and others are huge. So what are the largest and smallest asteroids in the solar system?

As Ceres came into focus over the winter, we couldn’t help but draw our gaze to two prominent glimmering bright spots.