A recent experiment led by Michael Poston, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas, suggests asteroid strikes excavated and melted ice hidden below Vesta's surface.

Ed Lu, has served as the executive director of the nonprofit B612, where he now leads the group's Asteroid Institute. 'At this moment, we are now one of the largest discoverers of asteroids on ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu have shed light on the origins of the outer solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu ...