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

Vesta, the second biggest member of the ... Yet, close-up images of the asteroid, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft over a decade ago, showed narrow gullies and canyons carved into impact craters ...

He noted, "Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt ... The discovery builds on data from NASA’s Dawn mission, which ...

and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) missions and studied in laboratories around the world, particularly in France, are derived from the same parent asteroid as the Polana family. The origin of the remaining 10% ...

and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) missions and studied in laboratories around the world, particularly in France, are derived from the same parent asteroid as the Polana family. The origin of the remaining 10 ...

Up until now, researchers were only able to trace the origin of around 6% of meteorites, which primarily came from the Moon, Mars and one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, Vesta.

And about 6% of the meteorites can be traced to Vesta, it showed ... mortal threat to life on Earth. In 2022, NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a proof-of-principle ...