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Oct. 1, 2021 New research into metal-rich asteroids reveals information about the origins and compositions of these rare bodies that could one day be ...
Oct. 31, 2022 Twilight observations have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population that lurks inside the orbits of ...
Mar. 28, 2023 Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red color, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, according to ...
Oct. 7, 2020 A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin ...
May 26, 2022 So far, we haven't discovered any exoplanets with co-orbital objects. A new study suggests tides could be causing oscillations that remove co-orbitals before we can find ...
Dec. 9, 2020 Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids near Jupiter to ...
Nov. 11, 2021 Near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our ...
Nov. 1, 2022 On September 26, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, at 14,000 miles per hour. Prior to the impact, ...
Feb. 1, 2022 Astronomers have confirmed the existence of the second Earth Trojan asteroid known to date, the 2020 XL5, after a decade of ...
Oct. 4, 2022 Planetary scientists identified a potential source of a special kind of meteorite. Its characteristics could explain certain discrepancies in how near-Earth asteroids are ...