NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, beaming back increasingly sharp pictures revealing a heavily cratered ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It seems the mysterious patches of bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres that puzzled scientists for months aren't quite done being ...

The latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal a second mysterious bright spot on the surface of Ceres. Perhaps it's a giant Ceresian welcome sign? Eric Mack Contributing Editor Eric Mack has ...

Scientists say the lights are likely salt deposits or ice, but we know better Time to start rehearsing your “we will not go quietly into the night” speech from Independence Day. Scientists at NASA ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back more photos of the mysterious lights on Ceres, the dwarf planet. Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, a ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter ...