27 September 2021
Jupiter’s early orbit had a wobble that may have flung asteroids from the inner and outer solar system into each other, creating hybrid rocks such as the Nedagolla meteorite that fell in India in 1870
20 August 2021
A pair of astronomers have sifted through old data to find more than half a million new asteroids, which may reveal how planets moved in the early solar system
15 March 2021
When the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft bombed the asteroid Ryugu, boulders near the impact didn't move nearly as much as expected, revealing how hard it is to make an asteroid-quake
8 March 2021
A meteorite that formed just 2 million years after the solar system is the oldest volcanic rock ever found, and it is different from any other meteorite in our collection
7 January 2021
We thought meteorites stopped delivering liquid water to Earth billions of years ago – but they may have continued to do so in the past million years
4 December 2020
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid
20 October 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to extend its robotic arm and bounce off the asteroid Bennu, collecting a sample of dust and rocks to bring back to Earth in 2023
8 October 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has performed detailed analyses of the asteroid Bennu, which revealed signs of ancient flowing water
10 August 2020
New analysis of data from the Dawn spacecraft suggests there may be a liquid water ocean beneath the Occator crater on Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system
26 May 2020
The asteroid impact that formed Chicxulub crater and is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs seems to have come in at the optimal angle to cause as much destruction as possible
