In prior missions, traces of organic materials were identified on the surfaces of other celestial bodies, such as Enceladus ...

The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

But what makes Ceres even more intriguing is the presence of organic material—key building blocks of life. NASA's Dawn mission, which orbited Ceres from 2015 to 2018, revealed surprising details ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Dawn Spacecraft is flying 240 miles above Ceres, and the images it is capturing are revealing fascinating characteristics of the minor planet's surface.

Description: The CERES project is sponsored by The Boeing Company (or Boeing ... prototype optimized for performance in space exploration habitats for trans-Martian missions. Boeing provided the ...

We have a decent number of launches coming up this week with a heavy focus on launching satellites to space. China, Rocket ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's dawn spacecraft has been taking photos of the fascinating dwarf planet Ceres. Here's some of the planet's most interesting features. Produced by Grace Raver.

The team created a simulated sediment from Ceres using data from NASA's Dawn mission and subjected it to conditions mimicking space weathering, further supporting their findings about the age of ...