Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ... including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA’s Dawn mission ...

This is an electron microscope image of a polished cross section of chrome spinel from a fossil micrometeorite that scientists believe comes from the asteroid 4 Vesta.

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Since entering orbit last month, Dawn has taken more than 500 images Vesta's southern section is dominated by a giant crater The northern side is filled with older craters including three that ...

Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center ...