the enigmatic asteroid 4 Vesta. To the scientists looking at data sent from the spacecraft over the past few months, the images of the 330-mile-wide asteroid have grown in size and brightness as ...

It's an asteroid the size of Germany which would wipe out all human life on earth if it ever hit — which is extremely unlikely to ever happen. The Vesta asteroid has a diameter of more than 300 ...

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 ...

The images acquired by the German camera system on the US spacecraft Dawn are currently being used for navigation purposes in its journey to the asteroid Vesta. A film, created by the Dawn team ...

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 ...