When Spacecraft Dawn of NASA reached Ceres at 4:39 a.m. PST Friday morning, it was the first time for a man-made object to orbit a dwarf planet in human history. As confirmed by NASA, the purpose of the Dawn’s launching   is focused on studying the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet […]

Although it consists of a third of the Erath, the world’s most abundant mineral has not got its name for a quite long time,  scientists was unable to get a natural sample of it to characterize. At present, after nearly intensive searching for fifty years, scientists have found a specimen […]

With help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have possibly identified a collision between two asteroids which are orbiting along a young star. As a result, the dust and rocks caused by such impact could finally accumulate and create a rocky planet. From previous observations, extremely dusty conditions from similar […]

A bright meteor lit up the sky over the Netherlands in 2009. If anyone saw it, the tiny asteroid impacted Earth yesterday should be as bright as it. *Image source: delmagyar.hu Astronomers discovered a tiny asteroid just before it impacted the Earth. This is not science fiction, it is what […]