Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only such object classed as a dwarf planet. The spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres for more than a year and has ...

Scientists from NASA’s Dawn mission have unveiled new images from the spacecraft’s lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly-anticipated views of Occator Crater. Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 ...

Dawn captured a full ~9-hour-long rotation of Ceres in this series taken on Feb. 19, 2015 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 km). The images have a ...

New images taken from Dawn's current orbit of just 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the dwarf planet Ceres show the ever-mysterious white spots in much greater detail than ever before. The image ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to the dwarf planet Ceres, but we still can't be sure what those bright spots are. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Despite the arrival at the planet of the Dawn space craft over a month ago, NASA scientists are nowhere nearer to finding an explanation for this unusual phenomenon than they were before. It was ...

Ceres (pronounced "series") is in the asteroid belt -- but it's not just an asteroid. Technically, Ceres is also a dwarf planet (the only one inside the orbit of Pluto), making it an improbable body ...

Dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots are perhaps the strangest of all its features. Now we’re finally in a low-enough altitude to get an unprecedented close-up look—and what we’re seeing may only have ...

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 ...

Observations made using the HARPS spectrograph at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have revealed unexpected changes in the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. Although Ceres appears as little ...