We consider the ID massless Dirac operator on the real line with compactly supported potentials. We study resonances as the poles of scattering matrix or equivalently as the zeros of modified Fredholm determinant. We obtain the following properties of the resonances: (1) asymptotics of counting function, (2) estimates on the resonances and the forbidden domain, (3) the trace formula in terms of resonances. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc: All rights reserved.