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Several dust rings are illustrated circling the Sun. In line with these rings' position around the Sun are the planets Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

Weird dust ring orbits the sun alongside Mercury and we don't know why

8 February 2023

Very little debris should be able to survive for long in the area near Mercury, but the innermost planet seems to orbit the sun alongside a ring of dust that researchers can’t explain


Fragments of a meteorite near the sun, huge stone rocks fly at the space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.; Shutterstock ID 1969898527; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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 Pan-STARRS1 Telescope

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


An artist's depiction of the InSight lander on Mars.

Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer

9 November 2021

The NASA Insight lander has measured the frequency of shallow marsquakes and found they are more common when it is summer in Mars’s northern hemisphere


Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

8 November 2021

Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed around which Earth grew


New Horizons spacecraft

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


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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


Solar sails could help spacecraft get up to speed

Solar sail spacecraft could be used to intercept interstellar objects

2 July 2021

We rarely get more than a fleeting look at interstellar objects that enter our solar system, but a new spacecraft design could be quick enough to intercept them before they leave


We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

23 April 2020

A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system


An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars

An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars

6 April 2020

An unusually round and symmetrical deposit on Mars may be the result of an impact that popped the surface of the planet, causing a volcanic eruption less than 200,000 years ago


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