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Asteroids & comets
Asteroids and comets are leftover building blocks from the formation of the planets 4.6 billion years ago. New discoveries, missions to small bodies, planetary defence and bright comets in the sky.
Articles
JWST maps the chemistry of comet ZTF in detail
3I/ATLAS: A Comet Older Than the Sun
JWST finds γ Ophiuchi's dust disk unbroken by rings
Explore This — Orbitviewer
Asteroid Mining for a Mars Colony: A Logistics Perspective
Comet ZTF Under Two Telescopes
A Comet From Another Star: What Juice Revealed
A Comet from Another Star: How NASA's Open Data Turned 3I/ATLAS into a Time Capsule
Hubble Catches a Comet in the Act of Breaking Apart
First Science Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from JUICE