The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at 4:07 a.m. Eastern ... to the Tiangong space station and the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return mission, expected to launch around May.

R ecent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building blocks of life beneath its surface. Scientists have discovered ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system ... First, the axis tilt of Ceres, currently 4 degrees, is higher than the moon's 1.5 degree tilt, so more of the crater rims are sunlit and ...

This mission could also conduct a sample return, complementing the Hayabusa 1 and 2, OSIRIS-REx missions, and future attempts to explore NEAs. Asteroid ... between 2.77 AU (Ceres, which had ...

Newly discovered materials on the distant asteroid Ceres leads to speculation that aliens may have once called it home. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the asteroid Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012 - it was the first spacecraft to orbit two objects in space (Vesta and later Ceres, another asteroid which is ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is a dwarf planet with frozen oceans and hints of ancient habitability, setting it apart from its rocky neighbors. With a solid core, icy mantle ...