Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Pocked with craters ...
Of the 10% of meteorites without a known source, 6% come from the moon, Mars or Vesta, the latter one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All meteor ...
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Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar systemNew findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived ...
What’s more, most of the material in the Asteroid Belt is tied-up in just four large objects—dwarf planets Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea. Then there’s the intriguing Psyche asteroid ...
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.
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