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Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

New Science results reveal the object's bilobed shape, tumbling rotation, age and minerals while validating Lucy’s instruments ahead of its Trojan campaign.

Study Finds Shallow North-to-South Impact Shaped the Moon’s Largest Basin

Far-Side Moon Samples Link South Pole–Aitken Impact to Lunar Asymmetry

Rubin Observatory Finds Fastest-Spinning Large Asteroid in First Commissioning Data

Study Traces Moon-Maker Theia to the Inner Solar System

Science Study Points to Inner‑Solar‑System Origin for Moon‑Forming Impactor Theia

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

Webb Reveals Silicate Clouds and Moon-Forming Disk in YSES-1 System