There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, agriculture, and harvests. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun.

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

Then, in 2006, Ceres was once again reclassified, this time as a dwarf planet — not quite a planet, but not quite an asteroid, either. Now Ceres had to share the spotlight with Pluto and the ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is finally giving scientists on Earth a truly close up view of the dwarf planet Ceres' distinctive bright spots, and they remain stubbornly mysterious. A new photo showing ...

dwarf or small planets. And most importantly, if Ceres has a sub-surface ocean, whose water we can access on its surface, it could provide the key to understanding how life came about on the Earth.

Makemake shares our Solar System with four other dwarf planets; Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Pluto. Easily the most famous of the diminutive planets, Pluto was controversially downgraded to dwarf ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The white spots on Ceres have been a mystery until now. Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from ...

At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else — from the eight major planets to dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and icy objects ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. NASA's Dawn spacecraft image of the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the ...

It was on the night of New Year in Palermo in 1801 – in what was then the southernmost observatory in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this ...

In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the planets ... being able to see asteroids, Ceres, Vesta, and Juno made the ...