NASA analysis of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 indicates it has >1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, which also means there's ~99% chance this asteroid will not impact. Such initial ...

Today: On Feb. 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, at that time classified as the ninth planet.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

New lab experiments, simulating Vesta's harsh vacuum conditions ... above Earth—but also feature the first-ever private spac... Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino acids, offering clues to how early Earth got its ingredients for life ...

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Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. “Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ...

NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's scientific camera system ...

About the mission NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's ...