September 2018

Indo-Asian Information ServiceSep 26, 2018 11:06:50 ISTBrazilian scientists have identified four new families of extremely young asteroids, bringing the total number to 13. The four families, all of which are less than seven million years!-->!-->!--post-info-->…

NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been crossing the asteroid belt for nearly a decade. He discovered water on the giant asteroid Vesta and ice volcanoes…

NASA launched an ion-powered probe called Dawn towards the asteroid belt in 2007.In 2015, Dawn reached Ceres, a dwarf planet the size of Texas that could hide a salty ocean and possibly alien life.The…

By Gretchen McCartney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory September 6, 2018Illustration of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, with its distinctive ion propulsion. Credits: NASA

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Will host a live science chat at 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) on Friday, September 7, during which experts will discuss the role of the Dawn spacecraft in the agency in the study of…