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

Get out your red-blue 3-D glasses and take a narrated tour of Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the solar system, as viewed by the Dawn spacecraft in the summer of 2011.Video: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Vesta, which has a diameter of 329 miles/530 kilometers and is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth, according to NASA. Technically, you could use a large telescope to get a close-up of ...

Up until now, researchers were only able to trace the origin of around 6% of meteorites, which primarily came from the Moon, Mars and one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, Vesta.

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

And about 6% of the meteorites can be traced to Vesta, it showed ... rock can pose a mortal threat to life on Earth. In 2022, NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a ...

Comet DustIn a NASA clean room a scientist examines traps ... This two-pound meteorite was probably blasted off the larger one, called Vesta. Jupiter’s gravity later slung it to Earth, where ...