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 ...

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 ...

However, a recent analysis using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft mission may force astronomers to throw that idea out the window. After reassessing Dawn's data, a team of researchers published a ...

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 ...