The new year brings a new feature. On this date in space exploration history will bring you daily facts about the history of ...

Spectroscopic observations with Dawn show that Vesta's crust consists of various types of rock ... was then the southernmost observatory in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered ...

What lies beneath the surface of Ceres? NASA’s Dawn spacecraft uncovered answers that shocked scientists and raised new questions about the origins of water in our solar system.  Join us as we delve ...

The NASA Dawn mission, launched in 2007, aimed to visit two of the most massive protoplanets of the main asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. The aim was to further our understanding of the earliest days ...

The Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector Dawn's Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) will provide new information about how Ceres and Vesta formed and evolved. GRaND is detecting strong neutron and gamma ...

Ceres has been the focus of more recent NASA investigations including the DAWN mission which sent a probe to the celestial object. DAWN launched on Sept. 27, 2007. After visiting the asteroid ...