The second-largest asteroid in the solar system is Vesta, and it may be a piece of an ancient lost planet. […] ...

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

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

However, some astronauts said they were far from lonely when cruising through the abyss of space. Michael Collins, who ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an asteroid or comet. He led the establishment of the Planetary Defense ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of Vesta captured as NASA's Dawn spacecraft retreated from the asteroid in 2012.

(AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles the sun.

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.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system's largest planet as it circles the sun.