A NASA spacecraft is about to get up close and personal with Ceres, a giant asteroid that also happens to be the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. This month, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will ...
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After a 7-1/2 year journey through the solar system, NASA's Dawn spacecraft settled into orbit Friday around the mini-planet Ceres that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mission ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...
Another dwarf planet is stealing some of Pluto's thunder. New images of Ceres were beamed back by NASA's Dawn spacecraft; they are stirring up more questions than answers. The images show some bright ...
In 1801, astronomers discovered the first body in the Asteroid Belt, a region in the Solar System between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Called Ceres, it was initially, and understandably, classified ...