passing through the asteroid belt, the cold rubble left over from ... She uses radar data, which creates black-and-white images that reveal the texture of the surface.

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

Jupiter has so many because it lies next to the asteroid belt and has a massive gravitational pull. NASA has plans to send a probe to several of them over the years 2027 to 2033. Researchers ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, and about 40 million years ago. The team also revealed the sources of other types of ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, and about 40 million years ago. The team also revealed the sources of other types of ...

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 ...

and lies in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 5. But these objects account for only 10% of ordinary chondrite falls, and the origins of the remaining 90% had yet to be found ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

While most asteroids orbit along an invisible gravitational freeway between Mars and Jupiter known as the Main Asteroid Belt, Bennu lies along an orbital plane roughly 105 million miles from the sun.

formed through collisions in the main asteroid belt, specifically 5.8 million years ago, 7.5 million years ago, and 40 million years ago. That may seem like a long time ago to our feeble human ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.