NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, beaming back increasingly sharp pictures revealing a heavily ...

But so far we haven’t seen any close-ups of Ceres, and there’s a good reason why: the Dawn spacecraft has joined the dark side. Not the Dark Side–just the dark side of this little dwarf planet.

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 has orbited the 592-mile-wide ice ball for years, but the probe is about to get its closest look at Ceres, the space agency said on Thursday.. Dawn began orbiting Ceres in ...

The closer we get to Ceres, the more perplexing the dwarf planet grows. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has found several more bright spots as well as a pyramid-like peak jutting out of the frigid world ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

Ceres has several craters and linear troughs. In this image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on October 14, 2015, the large crater Lono can be seen near the top right of the photo.

Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, ... One particular puzzle is the presence of frozen ammonia on Ceres, which the Dawn spacecraft found when studying the dwarf planet between 2015 and 2018.

So NASA's Dawn mission, which studied Ceres from orbit between 2015 and 2018, couldn't see as much carbon as some future spacecraft on the surface. So how soon could such a spacecraft arrive?

The Dawn spacecraft reached Ceres in March 2015 and accompanied it for about three and a half years. During this time, the scientific camera system and the spectrometer on board scanned the entire ...

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