Topic: Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Dwarf planet could reveal origin of life

Elizabeth Howell
Planet Pluto illustration incorporating NASA New Horizons terrain imagery (Getty Images/HYPERSPHERE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The forgotten "planets" of our sun

Matthew Rozsa
This Feb. 19, 2015 file image provided by NASA shows the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by the space agency's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). On Friday, March 6, 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrives at the mysterious dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter after a nearly eight-year journey. Dawn, which previously visited Vesta, also in the asteroid belt, has already beamed back images of Ceres as it closes in (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, File)

Sarah Gray