If the asteroid Ceres struck Earth, the impact would incinerate the planet, rip away 10 km of crust, and block out the Sun.

Imagine if a magnitude 15 earthquake rocked the planet! First off, buildings would be like Jenga blocks in the hands of a giant, just crumbling all over the place. Tsunamis would be hitting coastal ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

An artificial intelligence model trained on NASA satellite imagery can forecast what the sun will look like hours into the future – even predicting the appearance of solar flares that may warn of ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

We may one day be able to forecast powerful solar storms capable of devastating Earth’s electronics more than half a day in advance, following a successful test of the approach using the Solar Orbiter ...

These meteors and asteroids hit Earth. In 2016, a huge fireball lit up the Florida night sky and shocked everyone who saw it. In 2015, a driver in Thailand captured an impressive meteor on a dashboard ...

Alien forms of life have always been searched by NASA, and this time we might have been closer to find extraterrestrial life ...