Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some follow paths that ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being ...

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 ...

NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt. The goal was to better understand how planets were formed.

The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant ...