Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth is even more helpful for scientists. The most informative analyses ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) . The ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

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 ...

NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...

NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...