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

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Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

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The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

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

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

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