Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...
Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number of ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...
from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- until late 2026. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft slingshotted around Mars on Wednesday. The spacecraft used the planet's ...