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Asteroids · 5 guides

Asteroids

Rocky leftovers of planet-building, including the ones we've visited and sampled.

Start with Bennu The asteroid we brought home is a rubble pile carrying the Solar System's original chemistry.

Asteroid

Apophis In 2029 this asteroid will shave past Earth, closer than our TV satellites.

Asteroid

Vesta The brightest asteroid. This battered protoplanet has a mountain twice Everest's height.

Asteroid

Psyche A metal world that may be the exposed core of a shattered baby planet.

Asteroid

Ryugu Sampled twice and bombed once, Japan's asteroid carries the ingredients of life.

5 in-depth guides, with every fact labeled and sourced. Star any of them to build your own collection.

Looking for something we haven’t written up yet? The exoplanet database holds thousands more worlds, and Ask the Atlas can answer from everything we have.