could strike the planet in December of 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images When the ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

Vesta was discovered in 1807 by the Bremen physicist and astronomer Heinrich Olbers. By the end of the nineteenth century, astronomers could proudly point to 463 recorded asteroids. Instead of a ...

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 1 (1800 - 1814), p. 270 (1 page) ...