logo
welcome
Live Science

Live Science

Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds

Live Science
Summary
Nutrition label

78% Informative

ESA 's Gaia space telescope has spotted potential moons orbiting over 350 asteroids that were previously predicted to be singletons.

If the new observations are confirmed, these 352 binaries will almost double the number of known binary asteroid systems in the solar system.

Asteroids are the remains of the material that first formed the sun and then birthed the planets of the.

system over 4.6 billion years ago .