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15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

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Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...