A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million ...
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with comet 1998 KY26. Could it be unwittingly chasing and old Soviet ...
A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...
An approaching asteroid's orbit can provide clues to its origin in the asteroid belt in the same way as meteorite orbits. "Near Earth Asteroids do not arrive in the same orbits as meteorites, because ...
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 ...
Most asteroids drifting through our solar system are made of rock or ice, but one stands out as strikingly different. Known ...
The asteroid, whose collision with Earth about 66 million years ago led to a mass extinction, could belong to an ...
A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...