A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at Ceres' surface between 2015 and 2018 through the Dawn mission. Those observations revealed the dwarf planet's unusual bright patches as a salty crust of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently released this stunning animation of the dwarf planet Ceres' mysterious white spots that scientists have only just begun to understand. Video courtesy ...

A few tricks up its sleeve But that hasn't kept Ceres from shoving its way to the spotlight. The tiny dwarf planet has continued to baffle scientists with mysterious white spots and disappearing ...

Why not watch history be made as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet Ceres — the largest ... discovery of a second mysterious bright spot on the planet’s surface.

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

The car-sized Dawn… Read More For years, scientists puzzled over the bright spots that shine like alien headlights from the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt.

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. NASA's Dawn spacecraft image of the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the ...