this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day call “Bennu.” Eventually ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

Dwarf planet Ceres may have formed in the asteroid belt rather than migrating there from the outer Solar System. This possibility is supported by bright, ammonium-rich deposits found in Consus Crater, ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar ... system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ... in our solar system. Some of these bodies include Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...