November 2018

NASA's Dawn mission, launched in 2007, sought to describe the procedures that dominated the initial evolution of the system. To get a picture close to those times, Dawn visited the 2-stroke diet capsules - Vesta and Ceres, the biggest…

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has studied two large objects in the asteroid belt, is officially out of fuel, ending its mission to shed light on the early days of the solar system, but the legacy spaceship scientist will endure.Dawn was…

This photo of Ceres and the luminous regions of Occator Crater was one of the last views transmitted by NASA's Dawn…

Darkness has finally come for Dawn.NASA's Dawn spacecraft - which sent the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, into orbit in its long and accomplished life - is running out of fuel and has died, announced today.…

WASHINGTON - A NASA spacecraft that has visited two of the largest objects in the Solar System's main asteroid belt is running out of fuel, ending its mission, NASA said on November 1. NASA announced that the Dawn spacecraft…

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, orbiting the asteroid Ceres, has died quietly, the space agency said Thursday. Dawn missed her scheduled recording on Wednesday. Mission officials concluded that the thruster on her thrusters was dry and Dawn could…