This story was updated at 4:26 p.m. EDT. A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has suffered a glitch last week, but mission controllers say it will not affect plans for its upcoming trip ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a city that was discovered on the Moon. The image shows what appears to be an impact crater on a planet-like object. A grouping of bright ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...

NASA released more images of the giant asteroid Ceres that were taken Feb. 12, as its Dawn spacecraft puttered toward its goal — an orbit and scientific investigation of the queen of the asteroid belt ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA's pioneering Dawn spacecraft, a year late in being launched and 20 percent over budget, is slowly creeping up on the protoplanet Vesta and is expected to enter orbit around it about ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...

New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could have sparked the evolution of extraterrestrial life-forms in the tiny ...

A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during the probe's historic Pluto flyby in the summer of 2015. The dwarf planet Ceres still holds pockets of ice ...