Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Unlike most asteroids, which are composed of cosmic sediment, Vesta’s surface is volcanic basalt, indicating that it ...

The space rock seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, but scientists have now revealed the surprising place that asteroid 2024 YR4 "most likely" originated from in the solar system. According to ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high-resolution images of an asteroid, revealing a space rock with a surprising shape. Asteroid Donaldjohanson formed when two smaller ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar ... the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Researchers hope that studying Donaldjohanson will help shed light on how our solar system's planets formed. "Asteroid Donaldjohanson has strikingly complicated geology," Hal Levison, the ...

Donaldjohanson is one of three asteroids in the solar system’s main asteroid belt that Lucy plans to fly by in addition to the Trojan asteroids it has yet to observe. Lucy’s first asteroid ...