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

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 ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

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 ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a potentially hazardous object (PHO), meaning it could pose a collision risk to ...

Latest updates related to development of MBR Explorer in focus The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)'s critical design phase review was done by a group of Emirati and international experts.

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Makemake is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt ...

The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between ... Dawn's mission ended on Nov. 1 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk has been reduced to zero NASA downgrades 2024 YR4 to Torino Scale Level Zero Scientists to study asteroid during close flybys in 2028, 2032 ...

"Those probability numbers became vanishingly small," Binzel said, as scientists saw that the asteroid would most likely entirely miss our planet. "Once we fall below 1-in-1000 probability ...

Nasa said the asteroid has just a 1-in-26,000 chance of striking Earth - meaning there is a 99.9961 per cent chance the rock will sail past. YR4 was previously estimated to have an alarming 1 ...