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 ...

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 ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pallas has been studied for decades, given its spot as the third biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt, behind Ceres and ...

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 ...

It seems the asteroid is heading its way now. Therefore, from virtually no chance of the asteroid crashing into the moon, the risk factor now is around 1.7%. The date of the closest approach to Earth ...

Newly gathered data has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has no chance of colliding with Earth. The risk, which had previously been estimated at 1 in 32, has been reduced to effectively zero ...

Last week, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but the numbers go up and down every day, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. On Monday, March 3 ...