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

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

The "creep test" was carried out on an inflatable habitat that would be carried to other planets to house humans. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), based in Huntsville, Alabama, performed the ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, ...

"There’s a high probability that if you want to think about the most hospitable place where you want life to be outside the ...

NASA had a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere and rings when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, ...

Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven to have "opened a new window to the universe," with more than 1.6 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on ...