Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers reveal. A new study finds that Ceres, which sits in the asteroid belt between ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

The first asteroid to be discovered was 1 Ceres in 1801 by astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi. What is the largest asteroid in the solar system? The largest and biggest asteroid in the solar system ...

Measuring 1,000-feet-long, the massive asteroid was discovered in 2004. Apophis is predicted to pass within 20,000 miles of ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

In December 2003, the Hubble Telescope spotted something peculiar on the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Hazy images revealed something bright and ...

This SPHERE instrument was developed to study planets around other stars, but our team is using them to study asteroid shapes ... two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta, which are around ...

The mission comes in the wake of the company's first demo mission in April 2023, Brokkr-1, a $10 million mission that tested the technology for extracting and refining platinum from an asteroid ...