NASA’s Lucy spacecraft finds asteroid Donaldjohanson is tumbling through space
Asteroid Donaldjohanson does not move through space with the tidy, steady spin scientists often expect. It tumbles in…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
In 2015, David Hole’s curiosity about a heavy “gold” rock on his shelf for 17 years revealed a space secret |
David Hole kept a strange rock for years, which led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite. Image…
Ancient impact with Theia may have brought water and life to Earth
Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the…
New simulations reveal the hidden forces shaping ‘snowman’ worlds beyond Neptune
On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two…