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

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However ... The value of this ...

one of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid belt. The source of the other meteorites had remained unidentified," said astronomer Michaël Marsset of the European Southern Observatory in ...

Until now, 6% of meteorites had been identified ( via their compositions) as coming from the moon, Mars or Vesta, which is one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt. Where the other 94% ...

Known as 1036 Ganymed, this is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids, with a diameter of approximately 37.7 kilometres, ...

Young asteroid families consist of a particularly large number of small fragments, which are also fast and often leave the asteroid belt. Quite a large number then also reach Earth, where they ...