Most dwarf planets and solar system bodies similar to Ceres’ size possess many large impact craters from billions of years of being bashed into by other space debris during the formation of the solar ...

We infer the crater chronologies of Ceres and Vesta from a self-consistent dynamical model of asteroid impactors. The model accounts for planetary migration/instability early in the solar system ...

On Sunday night, March 26, Ceres smiles for the camera right in front of a galaxy 55 million light-years away. On Sunday night, March 26, the dwarf planet Ceres will pass directly in front of the ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint. he new images showcase details of the cratered and ...

Watch live online as the dwarf planet Ceres swoops in front of the 'grand design' spiral galaxy Messier 100 this weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is one of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system — one whose secrets scientists have only been uncovering in the last decade. When NASA’s Dawn mission arrived in 2015, it ...

Ever since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft started snapping pictures of the dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt in 2015, scientists have been perplexed by the space rock’s relatively smooth surface; the ...

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 ...

Locations of water on Ceres; red is lower amounts and blue higher, but it's all over and just beneath the surface. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI Ceres is the ...

Dozens of ancient ice volcanoes once dotted the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, a new study finds. Whereas regular volcanoes on Earth erupt with molten rock, ice volcanoes — which are also known as ...