Would you like to pretend you're riding piggyback on NASA's Dawn mission hopping from the asteroid Vesta to its next target Ceres? All you need is a pair of 7x35 binoculars, a reasonably dark sky and ...

Who hasn't been dazzled by the Red Planet these April nights? Come 10 o'clock, Mars shines brilliantly in the south accompanied by the the blue-white star Spica. But did you know that just a short ...

These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The images are helping astronomers plan for the ...

Recent explorations have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the geological evolution of both Ceres and Vesta. Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, exhibits a diverse ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which studied two large objects in the asteroid belt, has officially run ...

We infer the crater chronologies of Ceres and Vesta from a self-consistent dynamical model of asteroid impactors. The model accounts for planetary migration/instability early in the solar system ...

LOS ANGELES -- NASA this weekend is set to launch a spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar ...

Hubble Space Telescope imaged the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres in 2007, both targets of NASA's Dawn mission. An artist's concept of NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The asteroid Vesta, which the ...

Observers with medium to large telescopes will want to point at magnitude 4 Saturn this evening. Several of the ringed planet’s moons are lined up nicely tonight: Tethys and Enceladus sit east of ...

Astronomers have created highly detailed images of 42 of the solar system's largest asteroid belt objects, including Ceres which has a diameter twice as long as the Grand Canyon. The team used the ...