The long, puzzling dwarf planet Ceres, in reality the first named asteroid, has surface features that are much more complex ...

A short video released by NASA uses images taken from the Dawn spacecraft to simulate the experience of orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest known object in the main asteroid belt between Mars ...

New evidence from NASA suggests that a dwarf planet may have harbored the right conditions to support life in the past. According to findings published following studies from NASA's Dawn mission which ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...