With the Dawn spacecraft now heading towards the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres, the mission has suddenly gotten even more intriguing. The…
The next few years will be banner ones for learning about dwarf planets. While the high-profile New Horizons spacecraft zooms…
The feat has never been accomplished before and next week’s departure for the Dawn spacecraft from Vesta will be monumental.…
[/caption] Celebrate the winter holiday season in the company of an ‘Alien Snowman’ on the asteroid Vesta, someone we didn’t…
[/caption] NASA has just released an amazing new view of the mysterious south pole of Vesta that offers an oblique…
[/caption]The term celestial body is as expansive as the entire universe, both known and unknown. By definition a celestial body…
[/caption] Minor planet is a term used to refer to a celestial object - that is not a planet or…