Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

No overnight rain and a beautiful sky. Moisture will increase in the days ahead so tonight is perfect for stargazing. This ...

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

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

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

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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of Vesta captured as NASA's Dawn spacecraft retreated from the asteroid in 2012.

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

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

"We found that the moon's near side is flexing more than the far side, meaning there's something fundamentally different ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...