An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...

Scientists traced 70% of meteorites to three asteroid families. This discovery solves a mystery about meteorite origins.

There are more than a million objects in the Solar System’s asteroid belt. NASA’s even visited a few of them, such as Bennu and, soon, Psyche. However, another asteroid named 33 Polyhymnia presents a ...

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Until recently, the origin of almost all meteorites was unknown. A research team could now assign more than two thirds to ...

Scientists have traced the source of more than 70% of meteorites that have hit Earth to specific asteroid families, providing ...

European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rockets away from Florida on two-year journey to small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

The research has been led by a scientist called Joshua Pearce. It says that the organic compounds inside of asteroids - which ...