Dawn's going down. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting Ceres since March 2015, will maneuver to its final and lowest orbit ever to take incredibly detailed photos and compositional measurements of ...

After a 7-1/2 year journey through the solar system, NASA's Dawn spacecraft settled into orbit Friday around the mini-planet Ceres that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mission ...

After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet. Dawn has delivered a wealth of ...

PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed spacecraft made history Friday as the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The ion-powered Dawn spacecraft was captured by ...

The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this ...

A short video released by NASA uses images taken from the Dawn spacecraft to simulate the experience of orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest known object in the main asteroid belt between Mars ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft made this color closeup of cratered Ceres, the largest asteroid and also the only dwarf planet within the orbit of Neptune. You can see it as a faint “star” in binoculars in the ...

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Mankind evolved to live, survive, and thrive on Earth, under the specific natural conditions of this planet. Finding a new home, whether because we need to or want to explore the cosmos, won’t be easy ...

A Chinese commercial launch company sent four satellites into orbit on Wednesday (May 29) with the second sea launch of the Ceres-1 solid rocket. The Ceres-1 lifted off Wednesday at 4:12 a.m. EDT ...