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

Japan's space agency is hoping to make the samples collected by its Hayabusa2 space probe from an asteroid recognized as ...

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.

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

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

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

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially dangerous asteroids and meteors have only seriously materialized in the ...

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.