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Nearly a decade ago, Pluto was stripped of its planetary status. But if you were alive two centuries ago, you could have been just as smug about Ceres, too. On March 6, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word “planet” came from the ancient Greek words that mean “wandering star.” That makes sense, because for thousands of years, people have watched planets change position in the night sky – unlike ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

The two images above of the dwarf planet above were captured 30 seconds apart and have had the brightness and contrast enhanced to reveal the bright spots more clearly. Photo credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

A kindergartener in 2005 and a kindergartener in 2006 would have learned very different facts about the number of planets in the solar system. 2006, of course, was the year Pluto was reclassified as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

TWO lonely but hip robots will take us into our solar system’s darkest corners this year, and they’re already giving us tantalising Tweets of what is to come. Space exploration is ramping up: 2014 was ...