Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise
21 March 2023
Some asteroids appear to accelerate in ways that can’t be accounted for by gravity, suggesting they might be firing out invisible jets of gas - like those of comets
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Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other
5 October 2022
Scientists have found three strange asteroids that orbit relatively close to the sun – one is the closest to the sun we have ever found, and another may someday hit Earth
The hunt for hidden impact craters that could reveal Earth’s deep past
2 August 2022
Geologist Ludovic Ferrière travels the world in search of undiscovered impact craters left behind by asteroids and comets striking Earth. He tells us how he finds them
Asteroid Bennu may have got its spinning-top shape from landslides
28 June 2022
Asteroids that are shaped like spinning tops, such as Bennu and Ryugu, may have been slowed down and shaped by a series of huge landslides
Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit
22 November 2021
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just ahead of or behind our planet – and astronomers have now discovered that we have two
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids
7 October 2021
The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt
UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid
6 October 2021
The United Arab Emirates is planning to land on an asteroid in 2033, after a quick visit to Venus
Weird hybrid meteorite may be evidence of a chaotic early solar system
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
Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids
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
A Japanese spacecraft bombed an asteroid and it barely flinched
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
