Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

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 ...

Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter ... that are predicted to get within 4.6 million miles/7.5 million kilometers of Earth.

The brightest of these is 4 Vesta (the ‘4’ indicates order of discovery). On April 13, 2029, the tiny (320 m diameter) asteroid 99942 Apophis will have a near-miss with the Earth: briefly, it will be ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about ... or Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid ...

This SPHERE instrument was developed to study planets around other stars, but our team is using them to study asteroid shapes ... asteroids being Ceres and Vesta, which are around 940 and 520 ...

Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has existed for 4.5 billion years with an utter lack of atmosphere — so, any water the asteroid harbored on its ...