Consus crater is located in Ceres' southern hemisphere and has a diameter of almost 40 miles. It is not one of the largest impact craters on the dwarf planet. Images from Dawn's camera system show ...
Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt pictured here in this NASA-produced false-color image, may be the source of organic matter found on two meteorites that crashed to Earth in 1998.
Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...