"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...