Ceres could also be truly native to the asteroid belt. The researchers assume ... As the current study shows in detail, the impact that created the small eastern crater only 280 million years ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our understanding of this mysterious celestial object. Computer simulations suggest ...

Led by Uisdean Nicholson, a geologist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, scientists used 3D seismic data to measure the impact and were able to reverse engineer the size of the asteroid ...

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits ... NARRATOR: In the heart of the asteroid belt, Ceres, once a much icier world, has migrated far from where it formed, evidence that ...

Piazzi named it Ceres, after the goddess of agriculture ... The crater is one of the largest on Earth and substantiated the theory of a huge asteroid impact. The asteroid must have been approximately ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...

But it also includes a surprising amount of role-playing, where teams war-game asteroid impact scenarios. “In the real world, we haven’t really gotten to this stage where we actually have to ...

A second asteroid impact might have occurred around the same time, causing additional devastation. New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was ...

Yet, close-up images of the asteroid, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft over a decade ago, showed narrow gullies and canyons carved into impact craters on the object. Puzzlingly enough ...