International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy revives the debate about the origin of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in ...

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Vesta reaches its stationary point in Virgo today. This bright asteroid is easy to find from any location in just a few minutes.

Asteroid Vesta, once thought to be a protoplanet that had been left behind in its formation, is now the subject of a groundbreaking investigation of what may be a remnant of a far larger planet ...

NASA’s Dawn mission obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta on July 24, 2011. The spacecraft spent 14 months orbiting the asteroid, capturing more than 30,000 images and fully mapping ...

The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath of a titanic collision four-and-a-half billion years ago.

Vesta will not reach opposition with Earth again until Oct. 13, 2026, so be sure to head out and catch a glimpse of the distant asteroid before the orbital moment slips away.

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.

Vesta is an asteroid named after the Greek Goddess, Hestia, linked to the home and fire. One of the major asteroids in the birth chart, Vesta in astrology is key to establishing a balance between ...