Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

For more than a decade, scientists have debated the true identity of asteroid Vesta, a 500-kilometer-wide body that sits in a ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

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

JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter ...

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

Researchers say the dinosaurs weren’t yet in decline shortly before the extinction event, contradicting previous findings ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.