China’s latest deep space mission aims to investigate whether rocky debris ejected from planetary surfaces in the early Solar System could have helped distribute life’s key ingredients across space.

China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, launched in 2007, was designed to study Vesta and Ceres, the two most significant objects in the asteroid belt, to uncover clues about planet formation. Between 2011 and 2012, ...

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An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now astronomers have determined what 2024 YR4 is made of, what it looks like, and the unexpected place in the Solar System ...

Combined with similar salty discoveries from asteroid Bennu, the finding suggests that aqueous incubators of life’s first ingredients may have been relatively common in the early solar system.

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The origin of this asteroid can be traced back around 4.5 billion years ago when a colossal asteroid, approximately 60 miles wide, formed in the outer regions of the Solar System beyond Jupiter’s ...

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 ...