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 ...

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 ...

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 ...