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Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

But scientists believe comets hurtling through space may hold that wisdom. Like an asteroid, a comet orbits the sun. The latter is a ball of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system.

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

Nour Raouafi, Parker’s project scientist, compared the mission’s significance to that of the Apollo moon landing, ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.