As the moon reaches its new phase on Tuesday (March 21), the dwarf planet Ceres will lie opposite the sun in Earth's sky, in an arrangement astronomers call "opposition." Ceres will be visible for ...

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How would you like to see a dwarf planet? Pluto's the most famous, but it requires a good-sized telescope and a dark sky. There are currently five known dwarf planets. Of them only Ceres, which is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research based on NASA's Dawn mission data suggests the dwarf planet Ceres, once deemed ...

In a recent study published in American Geophysical Union Advances, computer models can elucidate how the geologic activity on dwarf planet Ceres could be explained by decaying radiogenic elements ...

The jagged terrain on this little world has a complicated origin story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Radioactive matter within ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft officially began its approach to the dwarf planet Ceres this week. Ceres was the first asteroid discovered and at 590 miles (950 km) across, the largest of the Main Belt ...

"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support biological processes." When you purchase through links on our ...

Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System and it was visited by the Dawn mission last decade. NASA’s spacecraft revealed that the world hosts complex organics, possible volcanism where ...

New pictures sent back by a space probe in the asteroid belt has given us our best look yet of a mysterious dwarf planet named Ceres. And in the weeks to come, the pictures coming back will get better ...

Scientists think they know where a mysterious dwarf planet that “could support alien life” formed. Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has left many ...