Dwarf planet Ceres may be hundreds of millions of miles from Jupiter, and even farther from Saturn, but the tremendous influence of gravity from these gas giants has an appreciable effect on Ceres’ ...

Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it’s not always present. Now, researchers suggest that this ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is becoming a new research focus in the recent field of ocean worlds science. It is the only large, water-rich body that has been characterized to an extraordinary level of detail ...

Ceres' dry exterior displays hydroxylated silicates, including ammoniated clays of endogenous origin. The possibility of abundant volatiles at depth is supported by geomorphologie features such as ...

"Liftoff at dawn, the dawn of Orion and a new era of American space exploration," said NASA announcer Michael Curie as the Orion spacecraft ascended from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force ...

in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos. The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 15th year. NASA’s Dawn mission has now arrived in orbit around ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, managed by JPL, has spent seven years cruising at “stunning” speeds in outer space, and has now arrived at its second destination in the main asteroid belt – dwarf planet Ceres ...