The exterior is a sight to behold, with its vibrant blue facade adorned with playful alien murals that seem to wink at you as ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The vast majority can be found in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroid approaches happen every day while close approaches with Earth and near misses are less ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day call ...

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Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

The rock is in a highly elliptical orbit of the sun that takes it across the Earth’s orbit and then back out to the asteroid belt. It will be visible only for a few months before it vanishes ...

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such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt. "Both Enceladus and Ceres have subsurface brine oceans," Associate Professor Timms said. "Even though asteroid ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...

A sign hangs on the wall during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Technology Media Workshop Telecon Briefing and tour at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel ...