Stories about: Vesta  

These days, Vesta is merely a space boulder traveling around the Sun nestled between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

Should all go as planned, the spacecraft will successfully place itself in the planet's orbit this coming March

German scientists create beautiful photographs of the asteroid

The spacecraft still has about two more years of flight ahead

Dawn discovered that the asteroid's history may be very complicated

Hinting at the conditions in the early solar system

The protoplanet doesn't weather and darken like the Moon or other asteroids

Scientists determined that Vesta had a molten iron core that generated a magnetic field

Vesta is the largest asteroid ever found in the solar system

The conclusion belongs to a new scientific investigation

The conclusion belongs to a new scientific investigation

The spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres

This was discovered in data sent back to Earth by a NASA spacecraft

The spacecraft is on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres

The spacecraft will reach its destination in early 2015

The clip was put together from photos collected by Dawn

The dwarf planet is its next, long-term science target