PASADENA, Calif. - The dwarf planet Ceres was long believed to be a barren rock, but new images from NASA’s Dawn mission proves otherwise. Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...

Growing patches of ice and minerals associated with liquid water reveal that the dwarf planet Ceres is still evolving. Researchers studying the warmer region of Ceres — the largest object in the ...

At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed a dark, heavily cratered world whose brightest area is made of ...

A new color map of dwarf planet Ceres, which NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting since March, reveals the diversity of the surface of this planetary body. Differences in morphology and color ...

Scientists from NASA’s Dawn mission have unveiled new images from the spacecraft’s lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly-anticipated views of Occator Crater. Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now closer to Ceres than ever before. Ceres is the largest known asteroid and the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. After Dawn entered orbit around Ceres in March ...

We present a global spectrophotometric characterization of the Ceres surface using Dawn Framing Camera (FC) images. We identify the photometric model that yields the best results for photometrically ...

PASADENA, Calif. - The dwarf planet Ceres was long believed to be a barren rock, but new images from NASA’s Dawn mission proves otherwise. Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...