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 ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...