This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA’s first-ever attempt to touch the surface of…
Browsing: Asteroid
An asteroid is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though they can be found throughout the solar system. Ranging in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers across, asteroids are remnants from the early formation of the solar system over 4.5 billion years ago. Studying these ancient space rocks provides valuable insights into planetary formation and the composition of the early solar system. Asteroids also draw scientific and public interest due to their potential impact risk to Earth and their promise as future targets for space missions and resource exploration.
Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from…
A recent study supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program provides new data on…
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the…
Mineralogists from Jena and Japan make a surprising discovery on soil samples of the asteroid…
MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an…
Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can…
On February 11, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the…
A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface. Asteroids come in all…
Preliminary results indicate that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site…
New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to ‘Big Thaw’ Curtin University scientists have…
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft…
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu’s boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid…
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their…
Analysis of the impact craters on Ryugu using the spacecraft Hayabusa 2’s remote sensing image…
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s…
Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the…
An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a…