On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

Asteroid Vesta is currently the second largest asteroid in the solar system, having been studied in-depth by NASA’s Dawn ...

Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

For years, scientists believed Vesta, one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt, was more than just an asteroid. They ...

Astronomers studied it for clues to how early planets grew, and what Earth might have looked like in its infancy.

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.