With its dark, heavily cratered surface interrupted by tantalizing bright spots, Ceres may not remind you of our home planet Earth at first glance. The dwarf planet, which orbits the Sun in the vast ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...

These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 km) as the dwarf planet rotated. The images have been magnified from ...

Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

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 rich ...

[This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The designers at NASA are preparing to fly what may be the feeblest spacecraft they’ve ever built–and they couldn’t be ...

The Ceres-1 rocket by Chinese space firm Galactic Energy took off from northwest China at around 11:02 p.m. EST via Jiuquan ...

Thought you'd like to see the latest photo of the asteroid Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of just 52,000 miles. We take a closer look to find out what those bright spots might ...