Recent numerical simulations suggest that many of the objects found in the ‘main belt’ between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter actually formed far out in the Solar System, moving inward during a violent spasm of planetary evolution.
The way that the Spirit Mars Rover uses different color filters non-simultaneously to take pictures resulted in an odd image due to a passing dust devil.
Astronomers have discovered a young binary system where both stars are surrounded by thick disks of material that are in the process of forming planets.
Scientists using data from the recently-Moon-smacked Kaguya spacecraft have found evidence of radioactive elements on the lunar surface, including, for the first time, uranium.
