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. As NASA's Dawn ...

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 ...

Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission. In its lowest-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres, Dawn has ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA recently published two new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken ...

Astronomers and planetary scientists have been waiting with bated breath for the first detailed close-up images of Ceres, the solar system’s largest asteroid. Now, with NASA’s Dawn spacecraft ...

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 ...