The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series "The Expanse," Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so-called ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

Nestled in the asteroid belt in the 342-million-mile expanse between Mars and Jupiter lies 33 Polyhymnia. Named after the Greek muse of sacred hymns, the asteroid is just one of a million or so ...

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home in an asteroid belt trailing our planet and orbiting the sun. A team of scientists well-versed in the ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's primary companion, the moon, has lingered around our planet for around 4 billion years since its ...