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 ...

Embarking on a new chapter of private space exploration, the Polaris Dawn mission is poised to make history this week by launching four private citizens into ultrahigh orbit and attempting the first ...

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft has photographed a pyramid-like mountain that rises nearly three miles above the planet's surface. How the peak was created remains a mystery, but there are some interesting ...

One year ago, billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew of three private Polaris Dawn astronauts boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule for a mission that would redefine the possibilities for private human ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA's pioneering Dawn spacecraft, a year late in being launched and 20 percent over budget, is slowly creeping up on the protoplanet Vesta and is expected to enter orbit around it about ...

One year ago, billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew of three private Polaris Dawn astronauts boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule in Florida for a mission that would redefine the possibilities for ...