The lights were on the dark side.” See also ... NASA’s Dawn spacecraft’s visit in 2015 marked Ceres as the first dwarf planet ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf planet ... above by The Brighter Side of News. Content may be edited ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ceres is a big mystery. The dwarf planet has raised all sorts of questions since scientists have gotten to see it up close. And this mystery may be the biggest.

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 ...

Although Seeing in the Dark ... a planet. In 1801, an Italian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi beat them to the punch when he found a dim object between Mars and Jupiter. He named it Ceres ...

All may not be lost, however. On larger space rocks such as the dwarf planet Ceres, the team calculated that gravity may be strong enough to pull the ejected material back to the body's surface.