20 October 2022
Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid’s history and may help us reconstruct the evolution of the solar system
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
20 December 2021
Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour
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
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
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
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
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
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
24 March 2020
A tiny meteorite found in Antarctica doesn’t match any asteroid or comet we know of. Instead, it must have come from a mystery parent body that’s full of water
