Comets/Asteroids

Credit: Kobe University Using the infrared satellite AKARI, a Japanese research team has detected the existence of water in the form of hydrated minerals in a number of asteroids for the first time. This discovery will contribute to our…

Credit: Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa is courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Washington, DC-- A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission's first observations of the asteroid. During this…

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8 December 2018) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) proudly supports the nation's current lunar exploration, Chang'e-4 lunar probe, with advanced technologies, namely the design and…

Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Gould Belt survey Key Programme/Palmeirim et al. 2013 "Super-Earths" and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an…

Credit: Wits University Researchers from Wits and colleagues from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar are on a "detective mission" to describe, classify and trace the history of a meteorite that landed in and around the small…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new…

Credit: Image Courtesy of Michael Hesse/NASA Goddard/Joy Ng SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 15, 2018 -- Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has found that the small…