Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

Learn why water levels are important to understand on the moon and how it could impact future missions to build exploration ...

Astronomers studied it for clues to how early planets grew, and what Earth might have looked like in its infancy.

Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest.

New findings change how Vesta is defined as not quite an asteroid or a planet. This research challenges previous notions ...

Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental properties of planets—a crust, mantle and core—making it a ... what planets like the Earth looked like during their early development.