The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

the MMGM also displays the second largest piece of the asteroid Vesta, over 40,000 mineral specimens, 19 interactive exhibits and a research lab. According to MMGM’s executive director Barbra ...

Of the 10% of meteorites without a known source, 6% come from the moon, Mars or Vesta, the latter one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All meteor showers ...

Much can change when it comes to the potential impact and danger of Asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, so let's take a ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

Estimates have been made by comparing the nature of angrites to the howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites, which originate from the Vesta parent body, whose radius is larger than 162 miles ...