Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...