Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

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

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space.

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, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

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 reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" is also making a close pass, traveling at 19,260 miles per hour and reaching ...

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