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.

Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that ...

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

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