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

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 mission, scheduled for this year, is a significant milestone in the development of space-based solar power systems. If ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight controllers ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

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

JX8 will come within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) of Earth, but ... More beyond the moon (not pictured here in ...

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

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...

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

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