An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

"We don't have ... the asteroid Psyche in August 2029. Psyche launched in October 2023 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on the opening leg of a six-year sojourn through the Solar System.

The boxy, solar-winged craft is headed to the peculiar object for which it is named: 16 Psyche, an asteroid that appears to have an unusually ... "The electric propulsion system has two identical ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

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

The Sun alone contains 99.8% of the total mass in the Solar System. The different planets have different properties ... orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.