A skyscraper-sized asteroid is set to narrowly miss Earth next week, Nasa has warned. The space rock, dubbed 2024 ON, has ...

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

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and most theories surrounding its creation suggest that it was also born there. Yet, this dwarf planet has some strange ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its rather ...

The first asteroid to be discovered was 1 Ceres in 1801 by astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi. What is the largest asteroid in the solar system? The largest and biggest asteroid in the solar system ...

There’s also a chance that Apophis could collide with another small asteroid between now and 2029. There are 1.2 million known asteroids in the galaxy, but there are others too small to track ...

The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million km of Earth, according to the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space rock last made a ...

A 3-foot (1-meter) asteroid burned up harmlessly over the Philippines today (Sept. 4) after being detected just this morning.