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Solar System

What did the Sun look like when it was born?

The Sun is 4.6 billion years old, but what did it look like in its early years?

Astronomy

How often does space rock hit the Earth’s atmosphere?

Space rock could be making its way through the Earth’s atmosphere more than we realise

FutureTech

Future Tech: Swarming the 300

An innovative new Finnish space mission recently presented to the European Planetary Science Congress could enable a massive survey of up to 300 asteroids

Solar System

Can asteroids have moons?

Planets can have moons but can large asteroids have them too?

Solar System

Ceres’ organic material most likely made by dwarf planet

After ruling out the transportation of substances by asteroids and comets, scientists conclude that organics likely originate from Ceres

News

Asteroid bombardment helped to support early life on Earth

In the first billion years of Earth’s history, the planet was bombarded by primordial space rocks, while a faint Sun provided much less heat

News

High-speed instrument to hunt for Kuiper Belt objects

Astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth and closer to home

News

Mystery behind Ceres’ spots could have finally been solved

Bright spots seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres are likely to be salt deposits

News

Mysterious ripples found in planet-forming disc around nearby star

Moving features within the dusty disc surrounding young star AU Microscopii have been discovered

News

Water reserves on Moon found to be delivered by asteroids

Water discovered on the lunar surface didn’t come from comets, according to new research

News

FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 42

We take a brand new breathtaking tour of dwarf planet Pluto in the latest issue

Astronomy

Can I see any asteroids from Earth?

We find out if it’s easy to spot the chunks of space rock that litter our Solar System

Deep Space

How do we know Kepler-78b is a planet?

How do we know for sure that this distant world is an exoplanet and not a comet or an asteroid?

News

Six-tailed asteroid: “We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it.”

Just when comets were the only space rocks thought to have tails, along comes asteroid P/2013 P5 with six.

Credit SSC Caltech. Solar System

Five amazing facts about asteroids

Find out what makes these space-faring rocks so interesting.

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