The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

The Earth has a “second moon,” and it appears to have originated from the original moon. This additional moon is a near-Earth ...

"Asteroid," a plush Shiba, is the "zero-g indicator" on the Polaris Dawn mission. "A zero-g indicator is a little plush toy ...

Photos from subsequent visiting spacecraft, such as NASA's New Horizons probe, revealed the moon's scarred surface is the likely result of a massive asteroid ... moon off its original axis.

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently ...

One way that she makes herself known is by posting pictures of herself cradling a ... extraordinary dig site” against a backdrop of an asteroid hurtling through space. “No one has ever found ...

These are the darkest, least dense, and most common type of asteroid in the solar system, which are mostly rocky and contain a large amount of carbon. (Thumbnail image courtesy Karen Bea ...