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

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

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

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

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

That's the conclusion of researchers who have ... of our solar system that never quite made it as a fully fledged planet for some reason. As the second-largest object in the asteroid belt between ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary “These objects really look like asteroids in the images,” ...

In November 2023, Lucy successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed encounter with an asteroid called Dinkinesh. The ...

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 ...

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

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...