NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent

This concludes the revolutionary mission to the Asteroid Belt after 11 years of service

Dwarf planet’s temporary atmosphere linked to Sun’s activity

It’s long been thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it’s not always present

Data from the Dawn spacecraft suggests the world’s interior is the source, as opposed to arriving via impacting asteroids or comets

Thousands of times heavier than the Milky Way, should the biggest galaxies in the universe really exist? Find out in the latest issue, out now

Many areas have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now

The NASA mission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69

Astronomers are discovering more intriguing information about the dwarf planet

This simulated flyover is the most breathtaking tour of the dwarf planet we’ve seen yet

For the first time in more than a decade, you can view all five naked-eye planets – from Mercury to Saturn – together in the predawn sky

Bright spots seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres are likely to be salt deposits

The luminous features on the dwarf planet gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft