Researchers propose two hypotheses. According to the first, Vesta may have formed a bit too late, at a time when the internal heat source, a radioactive element called 26 Al, had already partially ...

Vesta reaches its stationary point in Virgo today. This bright asteroid is easy to find from any location in just a few minutes.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

Most of what we know about the asteroid had so far come from howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites, following studies in the 1970s that first proposed Vesta as the parent body of these ...

Only one of the known Venus co-orbital asteroids follows a nearly circular orbit; the others move on more elongated paths ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...