A series of new NASA images may explain the unusual bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres that have been puzzling scientists. The closest-yet images of Ceres were taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 3 ...

NASA's Dawn mission has gotten the most detailed images of the Occator Crater on Ceres, given scientists their best view yet of the dwarf planet’s bright spots. Measuring 57 miles across and 2.5 miles ...

All the time that I've been distracted by the New Horizons mission at Pluto, the other dwarf planet mission has been steadily, methodically sharing dozens of images of brand-new sights of a previously ...

This is what a Ceres bright spot looks like, close-up. The Dawn spacecraft acquired this high-resolution color view of a sodium carbonate (salt) deposit on the southwest part of Cerealia Facula in ...

Ceres’ Haulani Crater, shown in enhanced color, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 km), shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December. These are the first in ...