Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to ...

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Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. "We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

or L-type (low-iron chondrites) stony asteroid. The asteroid made a close pass of Earth two days before it was discovered. The Dec. 25 Christmas Day pass saw 2024 YR4 come within 828,800 km of our ...

"That will help us determine what we need to do about it, because if it's a stony asteroid, that's very different from a high proportion of iron-metal asteroid," Lewis told New Scientist.

The rarest among the three are M-type asteroids, which are metallic, containing a much larger concentration of iron-nickel compared to the other two asteroid types. Several companies have already ...

The rest are mostly S-type or silicaceous – a mix of metal and silicate crystals – or metallic or M-type asteroids, which contain predominantly iron and nickel. One asteroid scientists are ...