What has given birth to our solar system? In a hunt for clues to it, the need to explore an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has been zeroed-in. This is what the NASA scientists felt and is all set to launch the Dawn spacecraft tomorrow from...

Ceres, initially an asteroid and recently a dwarf planet is all set to be explored by Dawn. Ceres a newly made dwarf planet some 590 miles is big enough that it has a gravitational field which has made it round. However, it also has failed to pass...

Pluto has always been surrounded in controversies, earlier it was known as a planet, but less than a year ago some researchers claimed that Pluto was too small to be called a planet and it should accompany Eris and Ceres in a group known as...

Picture: A false-colour infrared map of Ceres shows bright regions in red and dark regions in blue. The circular blue feature near the centre may be an impact crater, while the nature of the reddish patches is unclear. Black patches at the poles are...

To produce the eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel - ethanol, new and advanced biomass crops are planned to be developed and commercialized. To reach the goal, Ceres, Inc. and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. have come into a broad,...

The Dawn mission is a robotic exploration of two major asteroids. And NASA senior management announced a decision Monday to reinstate the mission. Technical problems and cost overruns led to the cancellation of the mission.

The mission is named Dawn...

Dawn mission was muted to study two of the solar system’s largest main-belt asteroids — Vesta and Ceres. But, according to a news report, NASA has sounded the death knell for it. It was on Thursday after a US congressional hearing on NASA’s science...

Investigation process of the two most massive asteroids known as Vesta and Ceres has been delayed. The NASA mission to two of the largest asteroids in the solar system being readied for liftoff in mid-June 2006 has been placed in “stand down” mode. The...