It still lists Ceres as an asteroid along with Pallas, Eros, and 2309 Mr. Spock. There is no debate about Vesta being an asteroid though, and with a mean diameter of 329 miles (529 km), it is the ...

South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.

However, that energy will intensify this week as asteroids Juno and Vesta both station retrograde. Asteroid Juno, which governs themes of home and contracts, will station retrograde in ...

You receive wisdom to understand what you can do differently to create luck. On Friday, March 21, asteroid Vesta will station retrograde in Scorpio to help initiate a discovery of truth.

Overview Accompanying last week’s Mercury retrograde, the asteroids Juno and Vesta are set to enter their retrograde cycles ...

Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in samples from asteroid Ryugu, pointing to a past with liquid water. The presence of these salts suggests that Ryugu’s parent body once hosted a warm, saline ...

South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth.

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Their sizes vary significantly, from Vesta—the largest, measuring about 329 miles (530 kilometers) ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

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