An unmanned spacecraft with ties to Tucson is on track to coast around the sun this winter before sling-shotting by Mars on its way to a rendezvous with an asteroid and a dwarf planet. NASA officials ...

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 ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been sending back images of the dwarf planet Ceres for several months now, but the latest are the clearest ones to date. Dawn entered close orbit of Ceres back on March 6th.

This story was updated at 4:26 p.m. EDT. A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has suffered a glitch last week, but mission controllers say it will not affect plans for its upcoming trip ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid. NASA's Dawn ...

Prior to Polaris Dawn, Isaacman was the only member of the four Polaris Dawn crew to have been to outer space before. The mission, which Isaacman funded with SpaceX, was filled with landmark moments, ...

SpaceX has shared some breathtaking footage captured from a Crew Dragon spacecraft during the recent Polaris Dawn mission. The video (below) was recorded by an external camera from an altitude of ...