09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
...were very surprised to learn that only one of the 70 largest asteroid collisions that took place over the past 500 million years resulted in... some reason, most of the rocks stay in the asteroid belt", says Schmitz. Terfel and Schmitz’s study not only...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... this potentially hazardous object. Bennu is possibly a fragment of a once much larger object from the Polana family of asteroids and is made up of material that could have remained unchanged since it clumped together during the first 10 million...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... of 2016 WF9 is not entirely known and its designation has been placed on the fuzzy line between an asteroid and a comet. As a dark body, roughly 0.5 to 1 kilometre (0.3 to 0.6 miles) across, 2016 WF9 resembles a comet in its reflectivity and...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
... dropped 51 metres from Hayabusa2 to land safely on the asteroid below – much to the relief of the international team ... from the mothercraft, and made contact with the asteroid surface approximately 20 minutes later,” explained MASCOT project manager...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
...higher than it is today. So if it didn’t all come from asteroids, how did it get here? By looking at samples of hydrogen from... nebula, which contains less deuterium and is lighter than asteroidal hydrogen, dissolved into the molten iron of the magma ...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
...the ancient space rock was a rubble pile asteroid. Rubble piles form when an asteroid or moon is smashed to pieces by an... fall back together, primarily due to self-gravitation. Many asteroids with low densities are thought to be rubble piles. Shortly...
