Vesta emerged in the first 1 to 2 million years after the solar system formed and is now the second largest body in the asteroid belt, which sits between Mars and Jupiter.

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Astronomers call such groups of asteroids "families." Over 120 such families are known to exist in the asteroid belt. Some, such as the Vesta family that is named after the second largest object ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

ON, which is the nearly size of two cricket grounds, safely passed the Earth on Sunday (). Subscribe to receive the day's ...

Hieroglyphics... Astrology Alphabet: VESTA, asteroid #4, most bright in Asteroids belt. Hieroglyphics character sign (modern symbol: the fire on the hearth or altar). Astrology Alphabet: VESTA, ...

This image depicts 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and ... with the two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta, which are around 940 and 520 kilometres ...

Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter ... Most of them exist within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

"Most asteroids can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. Asteroids range in size ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday that a small asteroid will hit Earth's atmosphere over Luzon early Thursday ...