Piecing Together Humanity’s Astrophysical Ancestry
What have we learned from the space probes that visited asteroids Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu? Quite a lot about the early, forming Solar System – which might include some prehistoric biology…
Asteroid Deflections are like a Box of Chocolates
In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed itself into an asteroid in a binary system. Today’s paper investigates the unexpected evolution of the binary’s orbit after the collision.
Collision Course – A Discussion About Life Threatening Near-Earth Objects
We know an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs – are we prepared if we find another Near Earth Object on a collision course with our planet?
Adventure to an Asteroid: JAXA’s Hayabusa2 visits Ryugu
Earlier this year, JAXA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid — one that can hopefully tell us about the solar system’s past, and how life on Earth came to be.
Where’s Lucy Going? Studying Asteroid Mission Targets
Come learn more about one of NASA’s upcoming missions — Lucy — which will be exploring asteroids!
Basaltic asteroids might not all be from Vesta
Most basaltic asteroids are thought to originate from the dwarf planet Vesta. However, some of these asteroids are far from Vesta and exhibit different spectra, implying a second point of origin.