YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

It also plans a test launch of the larger Ceres-2 no earlier than June ... This would see nearly 1,000 metric tons of payload to orbit and 2,000 satellite internet spacecraft launched for China ...

Explore the planets with NASA There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto ... definition requires that a planet: orbit the sun is large enough to be ...

Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI — China launched a new communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit Saturday to ... Energy is set to launch a Ceres-1 solid rocket Feb. 25 from Jiuquan ...

All attempts to fill this gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which was computed by Gauss, and found to lie between the orbits of Mars and ...

Pitched as China’s future primary launch vehicle for LEO and medium-Earth orbit missions ... Galactic Energy’s Gushenxing-1 (Ceres-1), and Chinarocket’s Jielong-3. The platform, marked ...

Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy worlds beyond Neptune's orbit. It's one of the fastest-spinning ... It's also known as 2007 OR10. Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid ...

It provides a unique glimpse into Ryugu's chemical history The discovery of these salt minerals has broader implications Similar sodium salts could be found on the dwarf planet Ceres Asteroids, which ...