"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

Monday's launch was the 18th flight of the Ceres 1, which has placed 71 commercial satellites into orbit. The model now has ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

"Those probability numbers became vanishingly small," Binzel said, as scientists saw that the asteroid would most likely entirely miss our planet. "Once we fall below 1-in-1000 probability ...

Nasa said the asteroid has just a 1-in-26,000 chance of striking Earth - meaning there is a 99.9961 per cent chance the rock will sail past. YR4 was previously estimated to have an alarming 1 ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...