This flat projection mosaic of asteroid Bennu shows the locations of the first 12 surface features to receive official names from the International Astronomical Union.…
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As the Solar System was forming, rock and dust coalesced to form primordial bodies around the Sun. Remnants of the earliest rocky bodies could be…
MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid, taking into account an…
Near Earth objects. Credit: ESA – P.Carril. Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth…
OSIRIS-REx orbits the asteroid Bennu. Credit: University of Arizona On February 11, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup…
During the OSIRIS-REx Reconnaissance B flyover of primary sample collection site Nightingale, the spacecraft left its safe-home orbit to pass over the sample site at…
The Yarrabubba Impact Structure. Credit: Google Earth New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to ‘Big Thaw’ Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft…
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
This 3D view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. From Feb. 12 to Feb.…
Photograph of the full disc of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, as it appeared to the Hayabusa2 spacecraft at 03:50 UTC on June 26, 2018. The…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1…
A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the Solar System’s smallest dwarf planet yet. As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea…
An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created…
This is an artist’s interpretation of the asteroid impact. The asteroid in the artwork appears much larger than the six-mile rock that scientists hypothesize actually…
The left-hand image shows SPHERE observations of Asteroid 1999 KW4. The angular resolution in this image is equivalent to picking out a single building in…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.…
he image shows a waning crescent Moon. Plotted on the night side is the LRO Diviner rock abundance map. The most prominent craters visible in…
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15…