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

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

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

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...