Will Dawn Find Life on Ceres? What NASA Has to Say About Possible Life on the Dwarf Planet

Medicine & Technology Feb 07, 2015

Releasing the sharpest set of images from within the asteroid belt to date, this week NASA researchers have filled the internet with their hopes for what may lie on the dwarf planet Ceres. Only a month before NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around the 590-mile-wide dwarf, found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the space agency is hopeful that their mission will reveal a lot more about the small planet and the secrets its surface may hold.

NASA’s Dawn Captures Unseen Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres in Asteroid Belt

Feb 06, 2015

Only a month before starting its orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres in our solar system's main asteroid belt, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed the sharpest images of the mysterious dwarf planet to date.

Dwarf Planet Ceres Approached by Dawn

Jan 20, 2015

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun approaching the dwarf planet Ceres, and with a new vantage point it has snapped some of its first images of the planet showing possible craters on the surface.

Could More Dwarf Planets Lie Beyond Pluto

Jan 20, 2015

According to calculations by scientists at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge, not one, but at least two dwarf planets must exist beyond Pluto in order to explain the orbital behavior of extreme trans-Neptunian objects.

NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Makes Approach to Ceres

Jan 03, 2015

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft, launched in 2007, is beginning to make its approach to Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt. Dawn's mission will make it the first craft to orbit two bodies in the solar system after spending 14 months studying the protoplanet Vesta.