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.

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 ...

CERES, Calif. — A person was found dead inside a shed as firefighters worked to put out a fire late Monday at a Ceres mobile home park. According to the Modesto Fire Department, it happened ...

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The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

That's a small increase from the 1.7% chance predicted by NASA in February. The asteroid will be studied by the Webb telescope again in May 2025 before it disappears into the outer solar system ...

The near-Earth asteroid first made headlines in late January, when NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced its existence and said it had a 1 per cent chance of coming into contact with ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — that's an impact risk of around 1%. Experts urged caution, though noting ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...