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 ...

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 ...

New images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft offer some of the finest detail yet of the dwarf planet Ceres. The spacecraft snapped the pictures on May 23, at a distance of 3,200 miles (5,100 ...

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 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 ...

Astronomers took 267 images of asteroid Ceres using the Hubble Space Telescope. From these images and subsequent computer simulations, they suggest Ceres may have a rocky inner core and a thin ...

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft draws ever close to the asteroid Ceres, the images of the giant space rock keep getting better and better, the space agency reports. Ceres, orbiting between Mars and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...