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 ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has taken thousands of photos of the dwarf planet Ceres, but these may be some of the weirdest. They were made on April 29, when Ceres was directly opposite the sun as seen from ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a city that was discovered on the Moon. The image shows what appears to be an impact crater on a planet-like object. A grouping of bright ...

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In a recent study published in American Geophysical Union Advances, computer models can elucidate how the geologic activity on dwarf planet Ceres could be explained by decaying radiogenic elements ...

Sit back and take in the view. You can see a new world coming into focus right before your eyes. The bright white spot, the origin of which is still unknown, stands out clearly, while dozens of ...

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, said Scott King, a geoscientist in the Virginia Tech College of Science. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt — the region ...