While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Twentieth-century explorations answered many questions about our satellite and its place in the solar system. But they also ...

An asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form. The asteroid ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, during its flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh ... into the internal structure and evolutionary history of Dinky and Selam. According to Professor Jessica Sunshine of the ...

Lucy’s latest asteroid encounter took place roughly 16 months after passing within 230 miles of Dinkinesh (aka “Dinky”) and its “baby asteroid” satellite, Selam. Donaldjohanson is the ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals ... having to land on the surface. Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies ...

By studying Earth-like orbiting objects with moon-like spectral signatures, scientists could determine what proportion come from the moon versus the asteroid belt, potentially improving our ...

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than previously thought, Nasa says. When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Donaldjohanson — Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon — NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets Lucy and ...