LOS ANGELES (AP) – The largest celestial body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter welcomes its first visitor Friday. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was due to slip into orbit around Ceres for the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration. The space agency on Friday confirmed that the Dawn craft entered orbit around ...

NASA has authorized a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is becoming a new research focus in the recent field of ocean worlds science. It is the only large, water-rich body that has been characterized to an extraordinary level of detail ...

Ahuna Mons is a volcano that rises 13,000 feet high and spreads 11 miles wide at its base. This would be impressive for a volcano on Earth. But Ahuna Mons stands on Ceres, a dwarf planet less than 600 ...

WASHINGTON — Are you ready for spring? I can hardly wait for two weeks from today when winter is officially over with the arrival of the Vernal Equinox (spring). But our winter weather woes have not ...

A Delta 2 rocket boosted NASA's $357 million Dawn spacecraft into space early Thursday, kicking off a decade-long flight to orbit and map the two largest members of the asteroid belt between Mars and ...

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft slipped into orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres Friday, setting the stage for unprecedented close-range observations of the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and ...

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