The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

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

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

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

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

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

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.

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

Asteroid Vesta is currently the second largest asteroid in the solar system, having been studied in-depth by NASA’s Dawn ...