The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Join us this week as Mike shares what makes Ceres an interesting point of research in our solar system. Astro Brief is a ...

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after ...

The new year brings a new feature. On this date in space exploration history will bring you daily facts about the history of ...

What lies beneath the surface of Ceres? NASA’s Dawn spacecraft uncovered answers that shocked scientists and raised new questions about the origins of water in our solar system.  Join us as we delve ...

Launched in 2007, the Dawn spacecraft traveled to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to orbit Vesta for 14 months and Ceres for almost four years. Before ending in 2018, the mission ...

On Christmas Day, a larger asteroid, 2021 BA2, will make a notably close pass at 1.71 million miles (2.76 million km). Measuring between 30 and 70 metres (100 to 230 feet) in diameter, it is ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to “skim” Earth on December 24th at a speed of 14,743 miles per hour. The asteroid is considered by NASA ...

China launches a CERES 1 Y4 carrier rocket from the waters near East China's Shandong province on Thursday, placing four satellites into their planned orbits. [Photo/Xinhua] Galactic Energy ...