Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Their week-long mission, called Polaris Dawn, is fully private with no NASA involvement — but it's no billionaire joyride. This spacewalk was a critical test of the technical abilities — like ...

It’s still a big deal 58 years later, since that record for a crewed spacecraft in Earth orbit remains. But that will change later this month, when the crewmembers of the Polaris Dawn mission ...

Scientists have mapped organic-rich areas using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft and found no evidence linking these compounds to cryovolcanic activity. Instead, simulations suggest asteroid ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) partnered with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission. Polaris ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

To this end, the team for the first time used artificial intelligence to analyse observational data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. According to the study, the dwarf planet's unique cryovolcanism ...

SpaceX had a busy morning today. It planned a historic crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, and two back-to-back Starlink launches from Florida and California. Things didn’t go as planned, though.

The first will be SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission which keeps being delayed and is now scheduled for Monday. The second one will be done by Roscosmos where two cosmonauts and one astronaut will ...