Over the last couple of weeks, the Dawn Spacecraft has been beaming back spectacular pictures of Ceres – a world, discovered more than a century before Pluto, about which we know very little. This is ...

The mysterious dwarf planet Ceres is ready for its close-up. Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres was the largest unexplored space rock in the inner solar system. But that ...

Big, dim, obscure – and just possibly a secret haven for alien life. That's Ceres in a nutshell. At 950 kilometres across, it was once known as the largest asteroid, but it has lately been upgraded to ...

In 1801, when an astronomer pointed his telescope at a seemingly star-like point of light, he probably had no idea a robotic emissary from Earth would one day be sent there. New Year's Day, 1801, the ...