An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

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

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

Asteroid 9 Metis reaches opposition in the constellation Libra. The main-belt world is visible all night, and best positioned ...

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

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate its internal structure.

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

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

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 ...