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

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

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

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

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...

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.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

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

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.