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Artist's rendition of asteroid Psyche

Could Psyche be the core of the planetesimal that struck Earth and formed the Moon?

Objects like Arrokoth could preserve ‘primitive ices’ from the birth of our solar system

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)

Water molecules identified on asteroids for the first time

This is a possible solution to what can cause a ‘snowball Earth’

The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Credit: Natural History Museum in Berlin.

Scientists have recovered pieces of the asteroid that burned up over Germany

A newly discovered asteroid will swing past Earth this weekend, coming closer than the Moon

Asteroids: What they are and where they come from

Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction

Dinkinesh and its contact binary satellites seen just 6 minutes after Lucy came in closest contact with the asteroids. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Surprise! NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered an asteroid moon that is actually two in one

Bennu regolith scattered around the outside of OSIRIS-REx's sample collector

Material collected from Bennu shows signs of abundant water and carbon — components necessary for life

With the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) hiding in the glare of the Sun, illustrated in this artist's impression.

Close calls: How many asteroids have narrowly missed Earth?

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth’s interior