NASA’s Dawn spacecraft launched in September 2007 to study two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, has recently discovered a mysterious pyramid-shaped mountain on the surface of Ceres.

The craft spotted the triangular peak while it was orbiting almost 2,700 miles above the distant dwarf planet.

NASA scientists stated that the mountain towers found on Ceres are three miles above the dwarf planet’s surface.

The new image, released Sunday by NASA, was taken June 14, the agency said. The image showed the structure with steep slopes protruding from a relatively smooth area of the dwarf planet’s surface.

So far, the agency has not suggested that the towering structure has a link to some long-lost space emperor or is home to our new alien overloads. As of now, it is just a tall mountain in a solar system that is filled with wondrous and strange natural phenomena.

The Dawn mission has only stoked imaginations since the discovery of mysterious bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet in February.

Experts have claimed to have spotted giant alien motherships hovering over the planet. Some said they spotted bat-winged spaceships parked on its surface and even evidence of alien cities.

The mystery deepened with the most recent batch of images showing even more bright spots alongside the largest one, which NASA said looks to stretch some 6 miles.

Many insist that the spots look like brightly lit cities twinkling on the shadowed surface of the distant dwarf planet. But scientists are still unaware of what those bright spots actually are.