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Bright Spots on Ceres Likely Ice, Not Cryovolcanoes
As the Dawn spacecraft prepares to enter orbit around Ceres on March 6, the science team provided the latest images…
Ceres Bizarre Bright Spot Now Has a Companion
Aliens making dinner with a solar cooker? Laser beams aimed at hapless earthlings? Whatever can that - now those -…
An Even Closer View of Ceres Shows Multiple White Spots Now
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of the mysterious dwarf planet world Ceres. These latest images,…
Dawn Captures Best Images Ever of “Hipster Planet” Ceres
This is the second animation from Dawn this year showing Ceres rotating, and at 43 pixels across the images are officially the…
Here’s Dawn’s Best View of Ceres Yet
Just sit back and watch the world turn… or should I say, watch the dwarf planet turn in this fascinating animation…
It Looks Like These Are All the Bright Kuiper Belt Objects We’ll Ever Find
The self-professed “Pluto Killer” is at it again. Dr. Michael Brown is now reminiscing about the good old days when…
Surprise! Asteroid Crashes And Raindrop Splashes Look Almost Alike
It's hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you'd need to be looking at the right spot…
2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet
Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…
Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 21, 2014: New Images of Europa
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz /…
How an Ancient Angled Impact Created Vesta’s Groovy Belt
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Vesta in July 2011, two features immediately jumped out at planetary scientists who had been so…