On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid ...

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

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

Wausau Pilot & Review Stargazers in central Wisconsin have plenty of celestial sights to enjoy this week, including bright ...

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

For more than a decade, scientists have debated the true identity of asteroid Vesta, a 500-kilometer-wide body that sits in a ...

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

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

If you missed Earth's ' mini Moon ' last year, chances are you might be able to spot another asteroid today. The space rock ...

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

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