Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there? Eurostar trains cancelled after WWII bomb ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

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All attempts to fill this gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of ... Juno, and Vesta, were discovered and 323 of these minor planets were ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

Up in space, NASA has deployed various spacecraft to study asteroids up close. These missions provide valuable data about the asteroid's composition, and structure. One was the Dawn mission to Vesta ...