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New images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal lots more about this mysterious little world from the asteroid belt. These latest were taken on Feb. 4 from a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 km) ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft recently made its closest flyby of Ceres, sending back the most detailed views of its surface. Ceres is the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt located between the orbits ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “planet” came from the ancient Greek words that mean “wandering star.” That makes sense, because for thousands of years, ...

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In 2015, scientists got their best glimpse yet of dwarf planets, when two NASA spacecraft visited distant worlds. In March, the Dawn mission arrived at Ceres, which lies in the asteroid belt between ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and NASA’s New Horizons ...

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Am I seeing spots before my eyes? New images from the Dawn spacecraft show lots more detail on the asteroid Ceres. We're getting closer and closer to Pluto. Asteroid / dwarf planet Ceres mystery white ...