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Asteroids are rocky objects that move around a solar system. They are often too small to be considered planets, and are more often considered minor planets. Asteroids orbit the sun, but not in the characteristic "disc" orbit that regular planets do.
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SEP 09, 2025Space & Astronomy
Did the subsurface ocean on dwarf planet ceres once fuel potential habitability? This is what a recent study published i ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 01, 2025Space & Astronomy
What minerals within the grain samples from asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth can teach scientists about this intrig ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 29, 2025Space & Astronomy
Asteroid Vesta is currently the second largest asteroid in the solar system, having been studied in-depth by NASA’ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 17, 2025Space & Astronomy
How old is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upco ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 04, 2025Space & Astronomy
Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 30, 2025Space & Astronomy
Does life exist beyond Earth and have the building blocks of life existed in our solar system for billions of years? Thi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 09, 2024Space & Astronomy
What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study publi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontaminatio ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 14, 2024Space & Astronomy
When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 22, 2024Space & Astronomy
How does extra salty water, also known as briny water, form and evolve on worlds without atmospheres, such as asteroids ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 16, 2024Microbiology
Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down an ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 15, 2024Space & Astronomy
How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? Th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 09, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Taurid asteroids, also known as the Taurid swarm, are a group is asteroids hypothesized to be leftovers chunks from ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
What did NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the asteroid moon, Dimorphos, teach astronom ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 14, 2024Space & Astronomy
Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? T ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 10, 2024Space & Astronomy
What are dark comets and how are they responsible for delivering water to the Earth? This is what a recent study publish ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 03, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Earth has asteroids pass by all the time, known as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and NASA recently tracked two of the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 10, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can asteroids teach us about the early solar system and were they responsible for bringing water to the Earth in it ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 19, 2024Space & Astronomy
On November 24, 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with the goal of demonstrating t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 14, 2024Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are frequently associated with being large chucks of rocks and nothing else. However, a recent study published ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 19, 2024Space & Astronomy
On this historic day in space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canave ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 09, 2025
Space & Astronomy
Did the subsurface ocean on dwarf planet ceres once fuel potential habitability? This is what a recent study published i
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 01, 2025
Space & Astronomy
What minerals within the grain samples from asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth can teach scientists about this intrig
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 29, 2025
Space & Astronomy
Asteroid Vesta is currently the second largest asteroid in the solar system, having been studied in-depth by NASA’
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 17, 2025
Space & Astronomy
How old is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upco
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 04, 2025
Space & Astronomy
Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 30, 2025
Space & Astronomy
Does life exist beyond Earth and have the building blocks of life existed in our solar system for billions of years? Thi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 09, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study publi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontaminatio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 14, 2024
Space & Astronomy
When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system?
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 22, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How does extra salty water, also known as briny water, form and evolve on worlds without atmospheres, such as asteroids
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 16, 2024
Microbiology
Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 15, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? Th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 09, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Taurid asteroids, also known as the Taurid swarm, are a group is asteroids hypothesized to be leftovers chunks from
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What did NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the asteroid moon, Dimorphos, teach astronom
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 14, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? T
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 10, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What are dark comets and how are they responsible for delivering water to the Earth? This is what a recent study publish
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 03, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Earth has asteroids pass by all the time, known as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and NASA recently tracked two of the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 10, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can asteroids teach us about the early solar system and were they responsible for bringing water to the Earth in it
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 19, 2024
Space & Astronomy
On November 24, 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with the goal of demonstrating t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 14, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are frequently associated with being large chucks of rocks and nothing else. However, a recent study published
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 19, 2024
Space & Astronomy
On this historic day in space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canave
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc