Another investigation that forms the structure of massive craters on asteroid 16 Psyche is providing new perspectives on one of the most persistent mysteries of the Solar System, whether the metallic object is the open core of an unsuccessful planet or a complex of debris formed during numerous collisions. The scientists in the Lunar and […]
Binary asteroid systems are not uncommon in our cosmic neighborhood with about 15 percent of asteroids around the Earth having small moons around them. A team of astronomers (headed by the University of Maryland) has since found that these binary asteroid systems are much more dynamic than they thought- involving active exchange of rocks and […]
The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years, which is the first of its kind to have recorded seismic and acoustic waves from an impact on the Red Planet. NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 […]