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

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

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

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

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

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

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt ... researchers' hypotheses have been explored enough to rule either of them out—but both do have issues that will ...

Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar ... system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...