31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
...for water to condense and clump together with other solids, our planet should be dry. Clearly this is not the case, so...in the inner Solar System at the time of the rocky planet formation, even though the temperatures were too high for water to ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... building blocks of our solar system. Studies of the asteroid could therefore help astronomers understand an aspect of planet formation that is relatively unexplored: iron cores. To help relay data about Psyche, the spacecraft will be equipped with...
December 2014
Finding NEO
.... NEOs are destined to collide with the Sun or a planet, or suffer another perturbation that ejects them from the solar ..., the goal is to better understand the process of planet formation and evolution, and the relationship between our solar system ...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... over the world, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center computed an orbit for the comet which showed that...shells of icy debris encircle young stars where planet formation is underway. A gravitational interaction between these comet...
