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

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

The night sky in May is filled with exciting celestial events, from dazzling shooting stars to eye-catching encounters ...

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.

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

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

Located between Mars and Jupiter lies Vesta, the second-largest body within the main asteroid belt. For generations, astronomers thought Vesta wasn’t an ordinary asteroid: It also contained ...

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 ...