July 2018

They may seem like boring old rocks, but asteroids and meteorites have fascinating stories to tell about the history of the solar system. New research from the University of Florida has now traced the origins of nearly all of the…

A new study from the University of Florida has found that 85 percent of our solar system's asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is made up of the remains of five or six ancient little planets.The lead author of the recently published…

It's exciting to watch the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 come closer to the chosen asteroid and start observing it up close, but there are still things we can learn about them from here. A new study has determined that 85% of our solar…