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During its third flyby of Mercury in June 2023, the European-Japanese space probe BepiColombo succeeded in taking new measurements in the planet’s magnetosphere. BepiColombo passed through Mercury's magnetic shield for around 30 minutes, allowing the ...
Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as far from its place of origin to its current near-Earth orbit as previously assumed. New research published today in the journal Science Advances suggests that Ryugu was formed near Jupiter. Earlier studies ...
Approximately four weeks after the successful Moon and Earth flyby of ESA’s space probe Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), the scientific and technical teams at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have analyzed the ...
Dwarf planet Ceres may have originated in the asteroid belt - and did not necessarily “migrate” there from the outer edge of the Solar System. This is indicated by bright, ammonium-rich deposits in Consus Crater, as a research team led by the Max ...