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

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 asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

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

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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

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

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

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

"Our findings show Vesta's history is ... the notion that some of the bodies in the asteroid belt are pieces ejected from the growing planets of the solar system is far from proven.

Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar ... the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA Scientists previously studied Vesta’s interior structure using gravity and shape data from ...