"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Bennu is a roughly 0.3-mile-wide (500 meters) asteroid that orbits in near-Earth ... also found that some of the particles have hummocky shapes resembling cauliflower. Similar rocks found in ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, which aims to study asteroids in the Trojan swarms orbiting Jupiter, has ...