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

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years. The inner ...

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

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 ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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, ...

He's working with one of his graduate students, Emily Elizondo, on the idea that some asteroids in the asteroid belt are pieces ejected from the growing planets. This idea is still far from proven.

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

NASA officials believe that studying such space rocks in the main asteroid belt will lend an understanding of how the planets of our solar system formed. It's also helpful to think of the flybys ...