A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

R ecent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our understanding of this mysterious celestial object. Computer simulations suggest ...

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

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 ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

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

The most miniature among them makes its closest approach to Earth relative to the rest, at about 1.5 million miles from the surface. A fifth asteroid will also move past Earth on Thursday ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group ... 2024 TR6 will return on Aug. 5, 2039, coming within just 1.2 million miles of our planet; and 2024 TP17 will make its comeback ...

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 ...