Nature Astronomy, Published online: 18 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02956-wSimulations show that the large depression at the south pole of the Martian moon Deimos formed in an oblique impact that also smoothed its surface, revealing a very weak surface over a porous, fractured, rubble-pile-like interior.

The small bodies of our Solar system (comets and asteroids) are the remnants of the building blocs that accreted to form the planets. The suite of events that occurred during planet formation left pri...

Explore the asteroid Dinkinesh’s tiny moon Selam and how it has been formed from multiple low-speed collisions between small moonlets.

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Space missions imaging small asteroid moons revealed the variety in shapes. Here, the authors show that repeated low-speed collisions can explain the shape of Selam, which is the smaller component in ...

Data from GIF posted here : https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-images-asteroid-donaldjohanson/ credit NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL - Asteroid DJ from Gif - 3D model by...

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