Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Dawn didn’t just observe Vesta’s giant craters - it mapped the asteroid’s interior and detected signs of a once-active molten core. At Ceres, its spectrometers found ammonia-rich clays and carbonates, ...

A 700km-wide object, 2017 OF201, has been found orbiting far beyond Neptune. It could reshape our understanding of our solar ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

These fragments of asteroids are called "carbonaceous chondrites ... materials were recently released to the surface of Ceres by asteroid impacts, are supported by separate results delivered ...

The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres, hides small underground ... a layer of organic chemicals (called aliphatics) covers hundreds of square miles.

The asteroid Ceres shares many similarities with the moon ... When Ceres is in this sign, we're called to excel and protect boundaries. Ceres retrograde in Virgo encourages us to accept help ...

Ceres’ status as a full-fledged planet was almost immediately diminished with the discovery in 1802 of an orbitally similar object called Pallas ... The term asteroid derives from the Greek ...