On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after ...

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Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

What lies beneath the surface of Ceres? NASA’s Dawn spacecraft uncovered answers that shocked scientists and raised new questions about the origins of water in our solar system.  Join us as we delve ...

Asteroids aren’t all the same. Some are rich in metals like nickel and iron, others are made of carbon-rich materials, and some are stony. Scientists classify them into groups like C-type ...

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In that night, nearly a hundred years after the discovery of the first asteroid (in the ... gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

Launched in 2007, the Dawn spacecraft traveled to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to orbit Vesta for 14 months and Ceres for almost four years. Before ending in 2018, the mission ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...