Scientists working for the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute will play a lead role in the next phase of NASA's Dawn mission. Mission researchers will begin to bombard the surface of the giant ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid. NASA's Dawn ...

Dawn, which launched back in 2007, has finally traveled close to Ceres in last few months. In that time, instruments on the spacecraft snapped pretty amazing pictures of the dwarf planet. This, for ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...