Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

Caption This image of the Cornelia Crater on Vesta shows lobate deposits (right) and curvilinear gullies (highlighted by the short white arrows, left). According to a newly published paper in The ...

A perspective view of Marcia crater, Vesta. Marcia (70 km in diameter) is one of the youngest large craters on Vesta and host to the largest concentration of pits on the asteroid. On the left ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Spectroscopic observations with Dawn show that Vesta's crust consists of various types of rock. At the south pole, the collision with another asteroid has left a huge impact crater with a diameter of ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...

The paper, "Experimental Examination of Brine and Water Lifetimes after Impact on Airless Worlds," details the team's findings after simulating the pressures that ice on Vesta, one of the largest ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the ...