Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth...

Cryovolcanism and resurfacing on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what...

Unexpected mineral in a Ryugu grain challenges paradigm of the nature of primitive asteroids

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving the understanding of primitive...