In 2015, NASA's Dawn space probe sent back the first images that directly revealed the presence of mysterious, bright spots on the surface of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between ...

Now is a good time to try and spot Ceres, which reaches opposition on Friday in binoculars or telescopes. But first a bit of history: Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered, by Giuseppe ...

Now is a good time to try and spot Ceres, which reaches opposition on Friday, Sept. 16, in binoculars or telescopes, but first a bit of history: Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered ...

who had no role in the telescope discovery. Launched in 2007 and powered by ion propulsion, Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two space rocks. Ceres is different from Dawn's first target ...

In December 2003, the Hubble Telescope spotted something peculiar on the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Hazy images revealed something bright and ...

because asteroids in the main belt are not known to spout plumes -- came courtesy of Europe's Herschel space telescope, which did not see the water vapor every time it looked at Ceres. At the time ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. ( Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) HELSINKI ...

Even so, the brightness of this 550-mile-wide sphere only hovers just below naked eye visibility, but Ceres can be readily detected in binoculars or a small telescope as this planet/asteroid/dwarf ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

The largest object in the asteroid belt just got more attractive: Scientists have confirmed signs of water on the dwarf planet Ceres, one of the few bodies in the solar system to hold that ...

LOS ANGELES — A space telescope has detected signs of water ... Space Agency noticed water plumes spewing from two regions on Ceres, a dwarf planet about the size of Texas.