The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 4:07 a.m. Eastern ... to the Tiangong space station and the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return mission, expected to launch around May.

This mission could also conduct a sample return, complementing the Hayabusa 1 and 2, OSIRIS-REx missions, and future attempts to explore NEAs. Asteroid ... between 2.77 AU (Ceres, which had ...

In that night, nearly a hundred years after the discovery of the first asteroid (in the ... gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which ...

The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main ... Dawn's mission ended on Nov. 1, 2018, after two ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi. Makemake is a dwarf ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has only about 1.3% of the mass of the Moon. The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ...

If you want to know what’s really going on in the world, then this is the event you won’t want to miss! Rise of the Guardians Conference, March 29 and ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway.