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

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

This comes after Nicola Fox of NASA's science mission directorate said: "Psyche is by far the largest [asteroid], and that's ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

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

The space rock is the smallest object ever observed by the largest and most powerful space telescope. After mid-April, asteroid 2024 YR4 will move too far and become too faint for ground-based ...

The asteroid that caused panic about potentially ... It is the smallest object ever observed by the observatory, the biggest and most powerful ever sent into space. Johns Hopkins University ...

The pictures demonstrate a couple of fun facts about the asteroid: It is the smallest object ever targeted by JWST's instruments to date, and it's one of the smallest objects ever directly measured.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Image showing Webb’s recent observation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A Rivkin (JHU APL) The space rock is the smallest object ever observed by the largest and most powerful ...