According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Billions of years ago, a migrating Jupiter tore through the young solar system, flinging a barrage of asteroids towards the ...

Planetary Geologist R. Scott Harris, working under the auspices of UGA, analyzed fragments of the meteorite with an electron ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...