Hygiea isn’t a new discovery but the fact that it meets the International Astronomical Union’s (…

The scientists used geological maps of the region made from images taken by Dawn as it orbited Cere…

This is made possible by its ion propulsion system, which gave the spacecraft enough power to escap…

"It will struggle for a short time, but it will be impotent," Marc Rayman, Dawn's mission manager a…

"We feel exhilarated," Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission at the University …

Expect to hear about other surprises on Ceres in the coming years: The Dawn spacecraft is in such a…

They also want to investigate why the dwarf planet is spewing jets of water vapor into space - a di…

"Ceres is the latest evidence that our solar system is filled with ancient habitable environments,"…

They'll be using the Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii to hunt it down and sea…

If this giant "Planet X" exists, we probably haven't spotted it because it's so far away. At such a…

A new study in the journal Nature identifies the material as a salt made of magnesium sulfate, call…

Based on collision models, scientists figured Ceres should have accumulated about 10 to 15 cra…

"Because of [a] commitment to protect Ceres from Earthly contamination, Dawn will not land or crash…

"[W]hen NASA says that there have been 12 Discovery missions, consider that 10 of them were selecte…

The top row of the image below shows the bright spot near Ceres's equator. The bottom row shows a p…

Last year astronomers at the European Space Agency peered at Ceres with the Herschel telescope and …

"Nitrogen is a critical element for life as we know it and Pluto's putative ocean could be a source…

The smooth features on Ceres, including shallow craters that likely eroded over time, make scientis…