<p></p> <p>Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time,
<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19606" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Colorful new maps of Ceres, based on data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, showcase a diverse topography, with height differences between crater bottoms and mountain peaks as great as
<p></p> <p>The closer we get to Ceres, the more intriguing the distant dwarf planet becomes. New images of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its mysterious bright spots,
<p></p> <p>NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by
<p></p> <p>Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles
<p></p> <p>As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December.
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January.</p> <p>These two ‘first light’ images were taken on
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>The placid appearance of the Sun’s surface belies a hot fireball of plasma in constant turmoil. A granular network invisible to the naked eye pervades the solar disc,
<p style="text-align: center"></p> <p>Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. When viewed with the human eye, the giant asteroid Vesta, which was the object of scrutiny by the Dawn