Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention ...

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 ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres, scientists expected to find a cold, inactive relic of the early solar system. Instead, they were confronted with bright white patches, strange mountains, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars ...

Galactic Energy, a private rocket maker in Beijing, conducted the sixth sea-based launch mission of its Ceres 1 carrier ...

China launches AlSat-3A for Algeria, Ceres-1 sea launch adds to Tianqi constellation China conducted its third and fourth ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

With a diameter of around 2,300 feet, the newly-detected asteroid completes a full rotation in just under two minutes.

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

China hit by dual launch failures as Long March 3B and Ceres-2 debut mission fail China suffered a pair of launch failures ...

An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.