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

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

in close proximity to the faint magnitude +4.5 star 16 Librae. NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached orbit around Vesta in July 2011, and spent over a year collecting data on the asteroid's composition ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT this morning. The magnitude 5.7 main-belt world is visible all night throughout the month of May, arcing slowly through Libra the Balance.