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Solar System Formation

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4mo ago

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.

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5mo ago

Rubin Observatory Unveils First Deep-Sky Survey Images, Activates Rapid Alert System

Solar System Formation

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

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Giant Moon Impact

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows Extreme Heavy-Water Enrichment, Study Finds

First Solids of Planet Formation Observed Around Young Star HOPS-315

Rubin Observatory Unveils First Deep-Sky Survey Images, Activates Rapid Alert System