Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

A stock image of an asteroid ... 4.6 billion years ago. The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Their sizes vary significantly, from ...

Jupiter, the planet of luck and abundance stationed direct in Gemini, ruler of your house of wealth on February 4. Since that time ... Yet as asteroid Vesta stations retrograde in Scorpio on ...

And Vesta is especially large; if you combined the mass of the asteroid belt, it would still only be about 4% of the mass of the Moon. Since asteroids don’t have a whole lot of mass, relatively ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

However, they have now dropped to near zero. Asteroid 2024 YR 4 no longer has a chance of colliding with Earth. NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a ...