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 ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has secured a new contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to support orbital missions using its Elytra Dawn spacecraft. The contract is part of the Sinequone Project ...

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 ...

Embarking on a new chapter of private space exploration, the Polaris Dawn mission is poised to make history this week by launching four private citizens into ultrahigh orbit and attempting the first ...

One year ago, billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew of three private Polaris Dawn astronauts boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule for a mission that would redefine the possibilities for private human ...

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.

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 ...

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The first private spacewalk, an on-orbit symphonic performance, and nearly 40 scientific research experiments. Those were just a few highlights of September’s Polaris Dawn ...

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 ...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reportedly lost ground control for at least an hour during the Polaris Dawn mission in September which included the first-ever private spacewalk. What ...

Asteroids always get left out of the party. Send a spacecraft to Jupiter or Saturn or one of the solar system’s other glamor spots and the press will be all over you. But asteroids? Not so much.