The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are also ...

Scientists know that the vast majority of meteorites that come crashing down to Earth originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

that land on Earth today are debris from three specific collisions between asteroids out in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. One happened 40 million years ago, and its remnants are a ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28 ... that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter ...