NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully entered Ceres' orbit early on Friday, making history as the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. Dawn was approximately 38,000 miles from Ceres ...

Dwarf planet Ceres may be hundreds of millions of miles from Jupiter, and even farther from Saturn, but the tremendous influence of gravity from these gas giants has an appreciable effect on Ceres’ ...

Remnants of an ancient water ocean are buried beneath the icy crust of dwarf planet Ceres — or, at least, lingering pockets of one. That’s the tantalizing find presented August 10 by scientists ...

Even though the interior of Ceres cannot be seen by the images that NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken in orbit around the dwarf planet, Dawn is still a key aspect in determining Ceres’ inner structure.

Radioactive matter within the dwarf planet Ceres may help drive geological activity there, a new study finds. With a diameter of about 585 miles (940 kilometers), Ceres is by far the largest member of ...