Asteroid belt

Illustration of two colliding asteroids. Credit: Europlanet / T. Roger

Gaia solves the mystery of asteroid rotation: Collisions and internal friction reveal the structure of "debris piles"

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Analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission reveals a sharp gap in the rotation patterns of asteroids – the result of a struggle between collisions and internal friction – and provides a new tool for deciphering the internal structure
This artist's impression shows the Tianwen-2 probe approaching the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Credit: CCTV

China launches Tianwen-2 – asteroid sample return mission

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If successful, it would be the third time in history that samples from an asteroid have reached Earth, and the third country after Japan and the United States.
Asteroid Donaldjohansson as captured by Lucy's L'LORRI camera. This is one of the most detailed images Lucy has taken during its flyby. It was taken on April 20.4.25, 1,100 from a distance of about XNUMX km. The image has been sharpened and processed to improve contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

Lucy spacecraft captures ice cream cone-shaped asteroid

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Asteroid encounter reveals 150-million-year-old fracture: The Lucy spacecraft took stunning images of the asteroid Donaldjohansson, revealing it to be a pair in contact, in the unusual shape of an "ice cream cone" with two spheres.
The main asteroid belt. Image: NASA

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals the smallest asteroids yet found in the main asteroid belt

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A group of 138 new asteroids, ranging in size from a bus to a stadium, has been discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by observations of the Webb Space Telescope
El Médano 128 meteorite, a regular chondrite (L group), was found in the Atacama Desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Research and Teaching Center for Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE - University of Aix-Marseille/CNRS/INRAE/IRD). Credit: © Jérôme Gatakzka, CNRS, CEREGE

70% of the meteorites that landed on Earth came from a small number of collisions in the asteroid belt

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A new study reveals that most of the meteorites on Earth were formed as a result of collisions that occurred in the asteroid belt in the last tens of millions of years. The discovery provides new insights into the origins of meteorites and the possible threat to Earth
The Webb telescope, seen in the lower right corner of this figure, was used to verify the presence of mummified minerals on the surface of the asteroid Psyche. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

The Webb telescope reveals water compounds in asteroid Psyche

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The observations will help analyze data from NASA's Psyche spacecraft on its way to this interesting asteroid that orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt - between Mars and Jupiter
Comet attack on young earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mysterious Travelers: Are We Drinking Water Brought by Dark Comets?

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Could asteroids, which are remnants of comets, be one of the main sources of water on Earth?
The preplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NSF

Target board or donut? Iron meteorites reveal the early form of our solar system

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The formation of our solar system involved the accretion of gas and dust into a preplanetary disk, with meteorites providing important insights into its early composition.
Two images from different observations of the Pallas asteroid, which is now considered the most crushing object in the solar system. Courtesy of the researchers

The celestial golf ball - new details about the asteroid Palace

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The dwarf planet collapsed. Source: NASA.

Keres - summary of findings

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Illustration of the meteorite impact that caused the unique double crater in Sweden. Credit: Don Dixon/Erik Sturkell/University of Gothenburg

For the first time, a double impact crater was found on Earth

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Artist's illustration of the dwarf planet Ceres. From the NASA website

Nancy, but fascinating

The asteroid P/2013 R3 after its disintegration. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope recorded for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid into at least ten different pieces

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Discovering water on a hook. Eurof European Space Agency

The Herschel Space Telescope discovered water vapor in an asteroid

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An artist's image of Mars, with asteroids passing by. Photo: NASA

Asteroids can shake and shed the ground due to the gravity of Mars

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Solar System. Illustration: shutterstock

Mathematical calculations for discovering planets - is history repeating itself these days?

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The north pole region of the asteroid Vesta as photographed by the Dawn spacecraft before its departure, September 2012

The Dawn spacecraft leaves asteroid Vesta

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Asteroid Vesta as imaged by the DAWN spacecraft on July 18, 2011

Today and night in asteroid Vesta

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The asteroid Vesta as photographed by the DAWN spacecraft on July 9, 2011, from a distance of about 41 thousand kilometers. Each pixel in the image represents about 3.8 kilometers.

NASA's DAWN spacecraft will begin orbiting asteroid Vesta today

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The orbit of Themis in the asteroid belt, Themis is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. Illustration: Josh Emery, University of Tennessee in Knoxville

Researchers have found water and organic matter on the asteroid Themis

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DAWN spaceship launch

NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins its journey to the asteroid belt * The launch was successful

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The launch of the Dawn probe into the asteroid belt has been postponed until September

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The largest asteroid may contain more water than Earth

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