Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

Donaldjohanson is one of three asteroids in the solar system’s main asteroid belt that Lucy plans to fly by in addition to the Trojan asteroids it has yet to observe. Lucy’s first asteroid ...

Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will ...

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

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

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

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

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 ...

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

and thus have the potential to provide scientists with a window into the formation of our solar system. Donaldjohanson is a medium-sized asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid. NASA's Dawn mission ... way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System's rocky planets likely began ...