Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...

Gone World's Meteorite Earn from some items through links: Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may receive commission or revenue from these links. The planets and dwarf planets we see today in our solar system ...

It still lists Ceres as an asteroid along with Pallas, Eros, and 2309 Mr. Spock ... with a mean density of 2.69g/cm 3, and they are believed to be composed of iron-nickel and silicates, making ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

The new facility represents Pallas’ sixth institutional warehouse, but this is the first one that will be used to fund construction loans. Previous loans, typically between $2 million and $50 ...

The European Space Agency's peak probability estimate was slightly lower, at 2.8%. Last week, NASA and the ESA agreed the probability of an asteroid strike was closer to 2%. "However," NASA ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...