The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...

Data from NASA's Dawn space probe calls into question assumptions about the origin of Ceres in the outer solar system. The ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With ...

Here at UT, we've had several stories that describe the concept of a space elevator. They are designed to make it easier to ...

On average, mini-moons remain in Earth’s orbit for anything from a few months to two years with the asteroid eventually ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of objects beyond the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the existence of a second, more distant belt in our solar system.

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