New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Asteroids are more than just space rocks—they come in many shapes, sizes, and compositions, with some even defying scientific ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

The sun, with its immense mass, generates the strongest gravitational pull, anchoring planets, asteroids ... explores other forces that shape our solar system. Gravity certainly describes the ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar ... days of our cosmic neighborhood. "We identified two large asteroids that show ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. "We identified two large asteroids that show similar spectral features to ...