LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet ...

LOS ANGELES - Next and final stop: The biggest object in the asteroid belt. After spending a year gazing at a giant asteroid, NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Wednesday began the cruise toward an even bigger ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 11, 2003 — Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Space Technology sector was awarded the prestigious NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for its work on the ...

Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission embarked on a 4.3 billion-mile journey to two of the largest objects in our solar system's main asteroid belt. Ceres is about 592 miles across, 14 times ...

A quiet NASA mission rewrote what we know about the asteroid belt. Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres two time-capsule worlds ...

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Ceres (pronounced "series") is in the asteroid belt -- but it's not just an asteroid. Technically, Ceres is also a dwarf planet (the only one inside the orbit of Pluto), making it an improbable body ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off Thursday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:34 a.m. EDT. Mission controllers at ...

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