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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Unlike most asteroids, which are composed of cosmic sediment, Vesta’s surface is volcanic basalt, indicating that it ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust ...

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 ...