New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

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Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both. Using their model, the researchers produced ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

Michigan State University. (2025, April 28). New research shatters long-held beliefs about asteroid Vesta. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 18, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 ...

For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid. NASA's Dawn mission seemed to confirm that, but new research is calling it into question. . | Credit ...

NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt. The goal was to better understand how planets were formed.