Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

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YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

In 2023, samples from the asteroid Benu were returned to Earth for scientists to study. Researchers have spent more than *** ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...