Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

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

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting in the rocky belt of debris located between Mars and Jupiter. A solar system body is considered to be 'in opposition' when it ...

The Psyche mission is heading first for Mars, where the spacecraft will use the planet's gravity next year to slingshot itself into the asteroid belt, setting up for arrival and orbit insertion ...

Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that suggest a different origin. Versta, the second-largest asteroid in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

They're found in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. An illustration of an asteroid hovering over the Earth in space, with an inset image showing ...