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

The second-largest asteroid in the solar system is Vesta, and it may be a piece of an ancient lost planet. […] ...

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

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

Asteroid 9 Metis reaches opposition in the constellation Libra. The main-belt world is visible all night, and best positioned ...

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 ...