The inner main belt asteroid (4) Vesta, with a diameter of about 525 km, is the largest differentiated asteroid showing a basaltic crust [1]. The collisional family of Vesta includes more than 15,000 known members [2] and it is considered the main source of basaltic material. The results found by the Dawn mission support the hypothesis that this

.The upper atmosphere of HD 209458 b undergoes hydrodynamic escape that is the most atmospheric efficient mass-loss process. Previous works on its characterisation were mainly based on the available Ly-α observations, which provide limited information due to the interstellar medium absorption and the geocoronal emission contamination, and then a

Thanks to the different Doppler velocities of the Earth, the host star and the planet using high-resolution spectroscopy we are able to detect and characterise exoplanetary atmospheres. Exoplanetary signal is buried in the residual noise, however by preforming cross-correlation of atmospheric transmission model and hundreds of atmospheric lines the

JAXA"s Hayabusa2 is a sample-return mission was launched on Dec. 3, 2014 for bringing back first samples from a C-complex asteroid [1,2]. It arrived at asteroid Ryugu on June 27, 2018 and left for Earth on Nov. 13, 2019 after conducting global remote-sensing observations, two touchdown sampling operations, rover deployments, and an artificial

Disruption and Reaccumulation: Asteroids such as Ryugu and Bennu are likely fragments formed from a larger body that was disrupted in the main asteroid belt [1,2]. Numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions—including the fragmentation phase during which the asteroid is broken up into small pieces and the gravitational phase during which

Neptune"s atmosphere is highly dynamic with atmospheric systems observable as bands and discrete cloud systems that evolve in time scales of days, weeks and years. Most of them are observed as tropospheric clouds and elevated hazes that appear highly contrasted in observations obtained in hydrogen and methane absorption bands in the red and near