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

Any asteroid we detect is generally a fragment of a much larger body that was formed at the birth of our Solar System – Alan Fitzsimmons This officially crossed the comfortable threshold of risk ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

down from around 2.8% — when it eventually reaches this part of the solar system on Dec. 22, 2032. Although the asteroid will most likely pass by without issue, those tasked with monitoring its ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 ... Dinkinesh's rotation was spun up by solar heating, exerting ...

down from around 2.8% — when it eventually reaches this part of the solar system on Dec. 22, 2032. Although the asteroid will most likely pass by without issue, those tasked with monitoring its ...