Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Pallas Athena (or Athene) is the asteroid that reflects our independent spirit. We can decide if we want to use our knowledge ...

Astronomers from MIT have been studying the asteroid belt object called Pallas, named after the Greek goddess of wisdom due to its unusual tilt. It was first discovered in 1802 but new images ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...