The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...

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

Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

Japan's space agency is hoping to make the samples collected by its Hayabusa2 space probe from an asteroid recognized as ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

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

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

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

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