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If all goes according to plan on Friday morning (March 6), Dawn will become the first spacecraft ever to visit a dwarf planet, and the first to circle two different objects beyond the Earth-moon system.

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven-year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun... --

NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres March 6, completing a journey of nearly seven and a half years and five billion kilometers. The post Dawn Enters Orbit Around Ceres appeared first on ...

Researchers scanning the atmospheres of exoplanets for gases produced by living creatures should hunt for more than just oxygen, methane and other "biosignatures" that swirl about in Earth's air, MIT's Sara Seager says.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The multiple images of the exploding star are caused by the powerful gravity of a foreground ell...

Space exploration never looked so good. NASA video shows a conceptual submarine that could investigate the liquid methane lakes on Saturn's moon, Titan.

Globalstar said its upgraded ground segment, which allows customers to take full advantage of its second-generation satellite constellation, should be in service late this year in North Amercia, with Brazil and Europe to...

NASA Breaking News: NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST today to discuss the historic arrival of the agency's Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Public voting for the fourth NASA Goddard OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Challenge runs through March 22.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

SES announced that Europe's Arianespace launch consortium would launch the SES-15 satellite in mid-2017 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The post SES Selects Ariane 5 To Launch SES-15 Satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Inmarsat said it expects its third Global Xpress high-throughput Ka-band satellite to be launched by June, with global commercial service to begin later this year, a timeline the company said gives it first-to-market adv...

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Scientists have been sear...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet's gravity ...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST today to discuss the historic arrival of the agency's Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres

NASA and other space agencies around the world are preparing for the fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge, which will be held April 10-12 at more than 135 locations worldwide, including New York, host of the ...

A caravan moves across the Lee Adoyta region in the Ledi-Geraru project area near the early Homo site. The hills behind the camels expose sediments that are younger than 2.67 million year old, providing a minimum age for...

Walk into the corner astronomy lab in the basement of Van Allen Hall, and you'll likely hear a student spontaneously burst into song while creating preliminary computer aided designs for an upcoming NASA project proposal...

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere....

Our week through the lens: 2-6 March 2015

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, spotted four images of a distant exploding star. The images are arranged in a cross-shaped pattern by the powerful gravity of a foreground g...

NASA and a UCF physics professor plan to launch a high-altitude balloon on Sunday to test a high-tech payload that may one day be used to detect life on other planets.