NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.

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Meanwhile, visitors were allowed to touch a fragment of the asteroid Vesta, which is the second largest asteroid ... based on data gathered by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). In ...

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December of 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. South polar region of the giant ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

The authors declared no competing interests. The study utilized data from NASA’s Dawn mission, which was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial destinations – the protoplanet Vesta and ...