A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

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

And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as the main belt asteroid 612356 2002 JX8 is not expected to post a ...

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

Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that ...

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 ...

Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet. This research challenges previous notions ...

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