Articles about Ceres

NASA’s Dawn probe falls silent, ending mission to mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

Dawn is dead, but Dawn is not gone: Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact… Read More

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are getting their closest close-ups from NASA’s… Read More

Happy Kwanzaa from NASA – and Ceres!

Kwanzaa may be an African-American festival on Earth, but it’s also a cute little mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres –… Read More

Water, water everywhere on Ceres: Ice lies just below dwarf planet’s surface

Readings from instruments aboard NASA’s Dawn orbiter support the view that a treasure trove of frozen water lies just beneath… Read More

Dawn probe points to ice volcano and thin atmosphere on dwarf planet Ceres

Scientists say a mysterious mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres was apparently once an ice volcano, spewing salty water and… Read More

NASA extends New Horizons mission to Kuiper Belt, tells Dawn to stay at Ceres

Almost a year after New Horizons’ unprecedented flyby of Pluto, NASA has given the official go-ahead for the probe to… Read More

Dwarf planet Ceres’ mysterious bright spot hints at upwelling of salty water

Scientists say the brightest spot on surface of the dwarf planet Ceres has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals they’ve ever seen… Read More

Dwarf planet Ceres’ mystery bright spots get their close-up from Dawn probe

The scientists behind NASA’s Dawn mission today showed off their latest, greatest pictures of the dwarf planet Ceres, including close-up views… Read More

Dawn’s latest close-ups should shed more light on Ceres’ mysterious bright spots

For years, scientists puzzled over the bright spots that shine like alien headlights from the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet… Read More

Ceres as you’ve never seen it before: NASA’s Dawn orbiter delivers closest close-ups of dwarf planet

Earlier this month we started seeing some of the closest views yet of Pluto, and now it’s time for close-ups from… Read More

Those mysterious bright spots on Ceres? Probably salty ice, scientists say

For months, scientists have puzzled over weirdly bright spots of material shining on the asteroid Ceres, but now they say the… Read More

Dwarf planet Ceres’ puzzling ‘pyramid’ mountain gets close-up from NASA’s Dawn probe

NASA’s mission to that other dwarf planet, Ceres, has delivered a fresh bird’s-eye view of one of the asteroid’s most… Read More

After 3.1 billion miles and 7.5 years, NASA’s Dawn probe reaches dwarf planet Ceres

Talk about an incredible journey. The Dawn probe, which was launched in 2007, made it into dwarf planet Ceres’ orbit… Read More