trojan asteroids
One Mars Trojan asteroid has the same chemical signature as the Earth’s moon
Mars has a trojan asteroid that could be a captured rock from the surface of the Moon.
New Ideas for the Mysterious Tabby’s Star: a Gigantic Planet or a Planet With Rings
Tabby's Star is dimming again, and two new studies have been released that offer new and interesting theories on what…
Five New Neptunian Trojans Discovered
Using data from the PS1 survey, an international team of researchers has made some interesting discoveries about Neptune's Trojan asteroids
Surveying the “Fossils of Planet Formation”: The Lucy Mission
In February of 2014, NASA's Discovery Program put out the call for mission proposals, one or two of which will…
Some Planet-like Kuiper Belt Objects Don’t Play “Nice”
The Kuiper belt — the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock…
Earth’s First Trojan Asteroid Discovered
[/caption] The first known "Trojan" asteroid in Earth's orbit has been discovered. A Trojan asteroid shares an orbit with a…
New Trojan Asteroid Discovered Around Neptune
[/caption] Astronomers have found a new object in a region of Neptune’s orbit, tucked away in a very hard-to-find location,…