New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

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

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.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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

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.

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

But the same chemistry might have had more opportunity to lead to life on other icy worlds. Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...