Each of the four Hubble images captures views of Vesta during its 5.34-hour rotation period. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Ceres, the most massive object in the asteroid belt ...

New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, reveal a world that's even stranger than scientists expected. The 590-mile-wide (950 kilometers) icy world is ...

Ceres lies between Mars and Jupiter. The dwarf planet has an average diameter of 590 miles and is the largest body in the main asteroid belt. Related: NASA’s Pluto mission in pictures Dawn ...

but rather the first and largest object in what would turn out to be the asteroid belt: Ceres. For over a decade, the best images we had of this tiny world -- massive enough to be pulled into a ...

In a paper set to appear in the January 2002 issue of the Astronomical Journal, astronomers report Hubble Space Telescope images taken of asteroid 1 Ceres that show surface detail at a resolution ...

Dawn took the picture when it was about 920 miles ... the liquid would sublimate away leaving the salts behind. Another asteroid slamming into Ceres could also cause upwelling, which is what ...

"Craters and mysterious bright spots" have been spotted on the dwarf planet Ceres, NASA announced Tuesday as new photos came in ... is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, which is located ...

That picture may not look like much at first glance, but it’s actually very exciting: That is Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, as seen by the Dawn spacecraft, currently on its ...

New image of the dwarf planet Ceres ... photos on last day in space • Nasa's Mars 'flying saucer' suffers parachute failure Previously Dawn spent two months observing the asteroid’s neighbour ...

We already know Ceres, the salt-spotted dwarf planet that rules the asteroid belt ... Sounds like Ceres is ready-made for terraforming, or at least for building a few highways.

The dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system ... This image, released Nov. 18, 2016, was created using images from Dawn captured in 2015 that were then color adjusted by ...