Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

They accomplished this by analyzing data on the motion of NASA’s GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission, ...

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

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

Giant rocks tearing through space at breakneck speed is terrifying at the best of times, but one picture of an asteroid has given many the creeps. There are an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million asteroids ...

“If they don’t change the tariffs, it’s going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event,” he told me. “Only these aren’t dinosaurs. These are ...

If you missed Earth's 'mini Moon' last year, chances are you might be able to spot another asteroid today. The space rock named Vesta is set to achieve opposition on May 2, which will cause it to ...

NASA has identified a glitch in the propulsion system of its Psyche spacecraft which is on its way to explore a metal rich asteroid of the same name. In a blog post published last week, NASA revealed ...

NASA has alerted the public about asteroid 2024 JM2, which is set to make its closest approach to Earth on May 3, 2025. Measuring around 190 feet across, roughly the size of a large airplane, asteroid ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Vesta won't reach opposition with Earth again until Oct. 13, 2026. On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting ...