This historic discovery was made possible by a telescopic survey of the composition of all the major asteroid families in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer simulations of the ...

The asteroid families produced by older ... of all the major asteroid families in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer simulations of the collisional and dynamical evolution ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

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

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 ...

Collisions in the main asteroid belt send rocky fragments flying haphazardly through space, with some of those eventually striking Earth. "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had ...

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 ...

Most of the meteorites that land on Earth today can be traced back to just three recent collisions out in the asteroid belt, according to a pair of recent studies. It’s hard to trace meteorites ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

In contrast, millions of asteroids that have escaped the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter flit about worryingly close to Earth, and are considerably more likely to hit us. Fortunately ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is part of Arjuna, an asteroid belt consisting of space rocks that follow orbits around the sun very ...