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.

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant ... In ancient Egyptian art, Apophis was frequently portrayed as a massive serpent, embodying chaos and darkness.

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 ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words, it was a treasure chest moving ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid ... in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer ...

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 ...

Asteroids are small, irregularly shaped objects that orbit the Sun, mainly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Khaleej Times reached out to experts in the UAE to understand what ...

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 ...