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13 Dec 2017

Ceres an active, evolving world. Not dead as previously thought: NASA

The researchers presented the latest results about the bright areas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday.

17 May 2017

NASA's Dawn spacecraft views Ceres's Occator Crater at opposition from sun

On April 29, Dawn successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface.

09 Mar 2017

NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveals age of Ceres' brightest area

The research, led by researchers Andreas Nathues at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Germany, analyzed data from two instruments on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft: the framing camera, and the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer.

20 Feb 2017

NASA's Dawn spacecraft finds evidence of organic material on Ceres

The organics discovery was made by the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard the Dawn spacecraft in and around a northern-hemisphere crater called Ernutet.

03 Feb 2017

Dwarf planet 'Ceres' may host several 'hidden' ice volcanoes besides Ahuna Mons

Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto, Europa, Triton, Charon and Titan, may also have such mountains of icy rock - called cryovolcanoes - but Ahuna Mons is conspicuously alone on Ceres.

16 Dec 2016

Ice is everywhere on Ceres, reveals NASA's Dawn spacecraft (Watch)

Newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet.

09 Dec 2016

NASA to announce new findings on Earth, space science missions – Ceres, Earth’s flowing ice, Mars to be featured in briefings

NASA will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union which is being held from December 12-16 in San Francisco.

04 Aug 2016

Thanks to Dawn, NASA now has access to the interiors of Ceres!

As per NASA, Ceres has a special property called "hydrostatic equilibrium," which was confirmed in this study.

02 Jul 2016

After Pluto, New Horizons set to explore Kuiper Belt

The New Horizons mission team has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt.

24 Mar 2016

NASA's Dawn reveals mysterious bright spots on Ceres – Watch!

Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles across and 2.5 miles deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres.

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16 Mar 2016

Here is the latest image sent by Dawn from Ceres – See pic!

Dawn spacecraft has sent an image that shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres.

08 Mar 2016

Dawn's one year at Ceres: A mysterious mountain on dwarf planet!

Latest images from Dawn spacecraft reveal a mysterious mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.

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13 Jan 2016

See Pic: New details on dwarft planet Ceres

NASA has recently released a detailed image of the dwarf planet Ceres.

01 Oct 2015

NASA's Dawn amazes scientists with new maps, insights about Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft continued to amaze, yet puzzle scientists with its tantalizing views and other data about the dwarf planet Ceres.

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