Data from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin are needed.

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Where do meteorites of different type come ...