This is a schematic view of the strange peanut-shaped asteroid Itokawa. By making exquisitely ... and combining them with a model of the asteroid's surface topography, a team of astronomers ...

Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S-type asteroid ... reveal that primitive compounds likely arrived on Itokawa’s surface after it cooled. This evidence suggests that asteroids like Itokawa ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

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