Mosaic showing 130 bright spots on Ceres. Top left: A haze appears above Occator Crater when the sun hits it, suggesting the crater contains subsurface water ice. Top right: A kind of haze also ...
Dawn, which launched back in 2007, has finally traveled close to Ceres in last few months. In that time, instruments on the spacecraft snapped pretty amazing pictures of the dwarf planet. This, for ...
At first glance, the dwarf planet Ceres hardly inspires dreams of alien life. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, it is a frigid, gray world, battered and cracked. Its surface ...
Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission embarked on a 4.3 billion-mile journey to two of the largest objects in our solar system's main asteroid belt. Ceres is about 592 miles across, 14 times ...
In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances on August 20, NASA researchers unveiled new insights about the potential habitability of the dwarf planet Ceres. According to data gathered from ...
NASA has just published a new image of the mysterious bright spots as scientists get ever closer to understanding Ceres. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...