Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Abstract: Ceres is the largest and most massive body in the asteroid main belt. Observational data from the Dawn spacecraft reveal the presence of at least two impact craters about 280 km in diameter ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

If you want to know what’s really going on in the world, then this is the event you won’t want to miss! Rise of the Guardians ...

With a diameter of about 960 kilometers, Ceres is unlike any other asteroid. It contains an unusual amount of water ice and salts, features that set it apart from the typically dry and rocky ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has only about 1.3% of the mass of the Moon. The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ...

NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth. The likelihood has increased to 3.1%.

NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now to 1 in 360. NASA announced the first reduced impact risk on its X feed at around 5:00 p.m ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --NASA said that new data cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. In a blog post on Wednesday, NASA said it expects the impact probability "to continue to ...

After Asteroid 2024 YR4 put space watchers across the world on alert about its likelihood of crashing onto Earth in less than a decade, more attention is being put on asteroids that are straying very ...