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Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.
Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA Scientists previously studied Vesta’s interior structure using gravity and shape data from ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...
A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...
The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...
For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar system. Now, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for So ...