The troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculation. The asteroid Vesta…
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Vesta is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It is the second-largest asteroid and the third most massive body in the asteroid belt, discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1807. Vesta is unique among asteroids in that it has a differentiated structure with a crust, mantle, and core, similar to Earth and other terrestrial planets, suggesting it underwent similar processes early in its history.
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on…
It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject…
Researchers wonder: Could they have delivered water to the early Earth? The formation of our…
Sitting between Mars and Jupiter, the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt is packed full of rocky bodies…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission, exceeding all expectations. On June 30, just in…
A newly published study shows evidence that transient water flowed on the surface of Vesta,…
Using NASA’s ultra-high-speed cannon and computer models to simulate asteroid collisions, researchers from Brown University…
New colorized images reveal geological structures on the surface of Vesta in unprecedented detail. Some…
New research has unveiled an unexpected link between Vesta and the moon and has helped…
New images from NASA’s reveal that large impacts of asteroids may have altered Vesta’s shape…
New data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of the Canuleia Crater on…
Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, scientists have been working hard to determine the story…
Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, after the dwarf planet Ceres,…
Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission…
As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft moves away from the giant asteroid Vesta and is now headed…
As scientists continue to review data from NASA’s dawn Mission, a new video adds color…
Launched in 2007, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began exploring the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and just…