But even for this crew, a sample from an asteroid was unusual ... and other light sources allow us to draw lines from the earliest history of our solar system to today. Through shedding light ...

This magnetic field played a crucial role in drawing matter inward ... that either no such field existed in the outer solar system during the asteroid’s formation, or it was too weak to be ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been remains a mystery.

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

A capsule containing precious samples from an asteroid landed safely on Earth on Sunday, the culmination of a roughly 4-billion-mile journey over the past seven years. The asteroid samples were ...

of rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu—a 4.5 billion-year-old fossil of the ancient solar system that NASA has ... Oumuamua 'Alien Spacecraft' Comet Drawing so close came with perils.

Today, most asteroids in the solar system are found in the asteroid ... So how do experts draw the line between an asteroid and a meteoroid? To Marchi, if a rocky object is in space, it counts ...

The asteroid belongs to the most common class in our solar system, the C-type ... the chemistry and structure of the asteroid and draw some conclusions about how it formed and transformed over ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system's origins A weak magnetic field likely pulled matter inward to form the outer planetary bodies, from Jupiter to Neptune Date: November 6, 2024 ...