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

What Happens When NASA Loses Eyes on Earth? We’re About to Find Out.

Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet. 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

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

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

NASA finally hears from most distant spacecraft Voyager 1 months after it was last heard from

Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA ... news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the ... 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

NASA pics capture mysterious ‘surfboard’ orbiting the moon: ‘Exquisite timing’

NASA photographed a sliver of a mysterious, surfboard-shaped object near the surface of the moon last month, images released by the space agenc y on Friday show. The pics, taken by NASA’s Lunar ... 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

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

Nasa's Voyager 1 phones home after months

NASA's Voyager 1 probe, the farthest man-made object in the universe, has resumed transmitting meaningful data to ground control after a period of transmitting nonsensical information, the US ... Read More