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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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