Meteorites,Comets and Asteroids

Since its capture by the gravity of dwarf planet Ceres on March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has performed flawlessly, continuing to thrust with its ion engine as planned.

If an asteroid were spotted headed towards Earth, what could humanity do about it? ESA’s latest mission is part of a larger international effort to find out.

NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission, which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars.

A 400 kilometre-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central Australia.

New data provided by the Dawn spacecraft suggests that some of the olivine on Vesta was delivered by asteroid impacts rather than being the product of internal geologic activity.

A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.

In an unlikely scenario, the craters that formed the Clearwater Lakes occurred almost 200 million years apart.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.

Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a dwarf planet when it enters orbit around Ceres on Friday, March 6.

The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles from Ceres, reveal that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.