Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

Nysa, one of the brightest asteroids in the belt between Jupiter and Mars, which has its own moon and three lobes.

Unique asteroid spotted with its own moon - Findings may help unravel processes that shaped the earliest phases of our solar system’s formation ...

The asteroid (44) Nysa was first discovered in 1857, circling the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Using ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered striking new evidence that asteroid (44) Nysa, one of the brightest and ...

Scientists have found that 44 Nysa, an asteroid discovered in 1857, is the first known triple-lobed (three-headed) asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and possibly changed Earth’s history.

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...