Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

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

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

For more than a decade, scientists have debated the true identity of asteroid Vesta, a 500-kilometer-wide body that sits in a ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

If you missed Earth's ' mini Moon ' last year, chances are you might be able to spot another asteroid today. The space rock ...

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet. This research challenges previous notions ...