On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

This group of meteorites is likely to have come from Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in our solar system, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. “Combining the observations ...

The planets give you a rundown of the type of energy displayed in your chart, while asteroids are more nuanced, private players that help color that ... the asteroid Vesta reflects the activities ...

New research on Ceres reveals hidden organic materials, suggesting subsurface reservoirs and internal energy sources.

The Dawn mission explored the asteroid 4 Vesta from different orbits for a period of one year, and is now approaching asteroid 1 Ceres. The Vesta mission phase led to a series of discoveries as, for ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

This is an image of Vesta, the third-largest asteroid in our solar system. Vesta measures roughly 330 miles in diameter. This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief ...

Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center ...

NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...

Until recently, only 6% had been definitively linked to sources such as the Moon, Mars, or the asteroid Vesta. However, this ...

The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...