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 ...

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

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet. This research challenges previous notions ...

Journey back to 2015 when the Dawn spacecraft first orbited Ceres, the colossal dwarf planet in our inner solar system. Dive deep into the mysteries of this unique celestial body as we recall the ...

One such location is Ceres, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The researchers say that Ceres’ gravity may be strong enough to pull material ejected from chondrite impacts back to ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life on Earth if it ever hit the planet.

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

But Pluto is almost certainly one of scores or even hundreds of impressively sized icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt. So, like Xena and Ceres, the largest asteroid in a band between Mars and Jupiter ...

The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on Eros, an asteroid near Earth, in 2001. The Dawn spacecraft was sent to the asteroid belt in 2011. It orbited and studied the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet ...