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

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

Vesta, long believed to be a differentiated protoplanet with a distinct core, mantle, and crust, is now the subject of ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

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

Unlike most asteroids, which are composed of cosmic sediment, Vesta’s surface is volcanic basalt, indicating that it ...

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

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

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest.

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