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

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

the asteroid appears to have been nudged our way by Jupiter out of the solar system's main asteroid belt, a ring of rocky objects surrounding the Sun that stretches between the orbits of Mars and ...

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

Donaldjohanson is one of three asteroids in the solar system’s main asteroid belt that Lucy plans to fly by in addition to ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far ...

the research team concluded that the space rock was rich in silicates and that this meant it "most likely" originated from the solar system's main asteroid belt. The asteroid was likely pushed ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars ... precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles ...