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

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.

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

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

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

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

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

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

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.