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

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 ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

The dotted white streak cutting across this photo of a faraway galaxy might seem like a nuisance ... space rocks that reside in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, hundreds of them ...

Active galaxy—A galaxy with an unusually strong ... Asteroid—A small rocky or metallic body that orbits a star. Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...