When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according ...

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science Advances suggests Ceres may have had conditions suitable for life between 4 ...

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter, a region not known to produce Earth-crossing asteroids, according ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

On September 3, scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid have discovered a variety of unusual materials, some of which existed even before the formation of the Sun. Three recent papers ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified mysterious symbols etched into the surface of a distant asteroid, ...

A new study based on data from NASA's Dawn mission suggests that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may have ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...