After a seven and a half year journey through the solar system, NASA’s Dawn space craft safely arrived at the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS ...

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A NASA scientist suggested there could be life in the seas of a dwarf planet saying astrobiologists are constantly “surprised” by the level of activity on the outer edges of our solar system. Ceres is ...

Five members of the science team for NASA’s Dawn mission to Ceres were excited Monday to view the clearest images ever taken of the dwarf planet. The Dawn spacecraft, which goes into orbit around ...

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Mosaic showing 130 bright spots on Ceres. Top left: A haze appears above Occator Crater when the sun hits it, suggesting the crater contains subsurface water ice. Top right: A kind of haze also ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a city that was discovered on the Moon. The image shows what appears to be an impact crater on a planet-like object. A grouping of bright ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back more photos of the mysterious lights on Ceres, the dwarf planet. Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, a ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter ...

Dawn, which launched back in 2007, has finally traveled close to Ceres in last few months. In that time, instruments on the spacecraft snapped pretty amazing pictures of the dwarf planet. This, for ...

NASA has just published a new image of the mysterious bright spots as scientists get ever closer to understanding Ceres. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...