Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
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The solar system is teeming with 1 million 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri
One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
Alpha Centauri May Have Sent Millions of Asteroids into the Solar System
Alpha Centauri asteroids may be scattered in the Oort Cloud Some interstellar rocks could travel into the inner solar system ...
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NASA Selects UVA Astronomer To Join Asteroid Mission
A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...
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Astronomers have spotted the most distant comet ever discovered
This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...
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A Tale of Two Asteroids
Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?