Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust orbiting our sun. The asteroids seen today are some of the most complete artifacts of this formation that ...

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Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend to produce fragments in a wide range of sizes, and the distribution ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

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This animation shows how an asteroid would appear during different phases depending on its location relative to the Sun, similar to how the Moon has phases. Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our ...