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

As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest.

The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...

Different meteorite classes correspond to different asteroid types ... to study the internal structure of a differentiated body. Meteorites known as HED (Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite) meteorites have ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

New geological findings from Scotland have upended previous assumptions about the planet’s ancient past, and hint that a colossal meteorite impact may have played a surprising role in life’s ...

Curtin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...