Our solar system’s least known dwarf planet, Ceres, has been photographed by the NASA Dawn spacecraft for the first time as part of an extensive mission to explore its mysteries. Dawn launched in 2007 ...

A stunning false psychedelic image of Pluto has been released by NASA New Horizons scientists. The eye-catching illustration was designed to highlight the various differences in texture and ...

No longer a planet but not forgotten, Pluto’s colors, captured by NASA almost 10 years ago, continue to dazzle among the collection of colorful celestial objects only seen in the solar system. Since ...

Dawn’s mission to study dwarf planet Ceres has proved so comprehensive thus far that NASA has been able to create a very detailed animation of the crater-filled surface. Dawn’s pursuit of Ceres has ...

New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could have sparked the evolution of extraterrestrial life-forms in the tiny ...

A NASA scientist has hinted at the possibility of life existing in the seas of a dwarf planet, stating that astrobiologists are constantly "surprised" by the level of activity on the outer edges of ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...