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, mantle ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

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

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid ... A team led by the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab or JPL published a paper ...

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

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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

Asteroids are remnants from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, though some, called Near-Earth ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA Scientists previously studied Vesta’s interior structure using gravity and shape data from ...