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 ...

The Hayabusa2 mission captured the asteroid with eerie clarity against a pitch-black backdrop. The unsettling darkness of ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

New research suggests there may be a hidden population of minimoons lurking near Earth, with fragments of the Moon traveling ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, ...

Kosmos 482, a 1,000 lb. former Soviet space probe, is currently expected to renter the Earth's atmosphere between May 8 and ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

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