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

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 2 Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT this ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...