On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body ...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists studying the inner main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson have found that its ...
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...
Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system, but not without ...
Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...
Comparing the solar system's ancient survivorsParameterAsteroidCometMain compositionRock, metal, and mineralsIce, frozen ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest. While smaller asteroids in the belt are considered fragments of collisions, scientists ...
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