A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Varied impact craters, valleys, canyons and mountains among the highest in the Solar System - the 3D images and videos of the asteroid Vesta created by scientists at the German Aerospace Center ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Vesta, with a diameter of between 460 and 580 kilometres ... Instead of a planet on the far side of Mars they had found the Main Asteroid Belt of the Solar System. Today we know almost half a million ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

“We think this is the primordial, unaltered material that everything formed from in the solar ... chips off Vesta. Meanwhile the giant-planet migrations also disrupted the rocky asteroid belt ...

were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation. Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246) Asporina and ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

Astronomers have sent artificial satellites (satellites that are manmade) to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites ...