In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

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MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

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Many of the asteroids in the solar system melted early on in their history to form an iron core and rocky mantle. During melting the heavier material, metal, sinks to the centre while the lighter rock ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved from a monstrosity of gas and dust into the protosolar ...

Such a strange planet on such an odd orbit. It would really change our understanding of the history of the solar system. Narrator: But if it is proven that this is a black hole in our own outer ...

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Both asteroids and comets were formed early in the history of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. Both asteroids and comets orbit the Sun.

They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history.