Dwarf planet Ceres could be a great place to hunt for alien life. Here's why

Numerous asteroids that have punctured the surface of dwarf planet ... NASA's Dawn spacecraft initially spotted organic compounds known as aliphatic molecules near a 32-mile-wide impact crater on ... Read More

Dawn - Mission to the Asteroids Vesta und Ceres

The objective of NASA’s Dawn mission is to investigate two asteroids, Vesta and Ceres, with unprecedented thoroughness. The two are the most massive objects in the asteroid belt and are two of the ... Read More

NASA And ESA Consider Sample Return Missions To Dwarf Planet Ceres

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy and host The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are independently ... Read More

NASA, the latest news from the US space agency

who is leading the agency's mission of returning astronauts to the moon and sending them on to Mars. See the latest NASA news. Related Topics: Apollo Program, China Space Program, Incredible Space ... Read More

Russian spacecraft, US satellite nearly collided in shockingly close call that ‘really scared’ NASA

“It was very shocking personally and for all of us at NASA,” Melroy said at the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium conference ... Pam Melroy said. Yahoo News Near misses and potential ... Read More

5 Space Exploration Imperatives To Hit By 2030

The launch of an orbital mission to Pluto NASA’s New Horizons flyby mission to the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt inspired us ... Dawn spacecraft entering orbit around the dwarf planet ... Read More

What's Your Favorite Planet?

Sykes is director of the Planetary Science Institute and co-investigator of NASA's Dawn mission ... planet in the solar system—these ice-rich, dwarf or small planets. And most importantly, if ... Read More

Out-of-this-world images from NASA's JPL

The slim crescent of dwarf planet Ceres smiles back prior to the arrival of an emissary from Earth. This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015, just a few days before the ... Read More

Creating a precise image of dwarf planet Ceres, piece by piece

Travelling along its lowest orbit, the camera on board the Dawn orbiter gradually photographed the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, creating a comprehensive map from a distance of just 385 kilometres. Read More

NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off

SpaceX launched TESS in 2018 to replace the decommissioned Kepler telescope as NASA's primary planet ... Science News // 14 hours ago NASA to launch solar sail, navigate space using sunlight ... Read More

What is the mysterious object NASA has found circling the moon?

A NASA robotic spacecraft ... to transmit data in a space setting prone to frequent telecommunications disruptions. Gidget writes for the latest news section of AS USA, covering breaking news ... Read More