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

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 ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI — China launched a new communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit Saturday to ... launch the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return and main ...

Tianwen 2 will utilize Earth’s gravity to enter into a transfer orbit that will rendezvous with comet 311P/PANSTARRS in 2034. Currently orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid ...

In that night, nearly a hundred years after the discovery of the first asteroid (in the first ... when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which was computed by Gauss, and ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

It provides a unique glimpse into Ryugu's chemical history The discovery of these salt minerals has broader implications Similar sodium salts could be found on the dwarf planet Ceres Asteroids, which ...

Originally, Ceres was classified as an asteroid when ... While most asteroids are neatly contained in the asteroid belt or in orbit with Jupiter as trojans, Jupiter’s gravitational influence ...

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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...