The Arctic is warming almost four times ... away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Archaeologists have analyzed a pair ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University suggest Vesta is a fragment of a larger, extinct planet shattered in a ...

The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant of a forming planet rather than a minor planet. Scientists long believed ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Scientists believe that most meteorites originate from small bodies in the asteroid belt between the orbits ... of planetesimals and the formation of planets, while preserving the scientific ...

(1, 2) Most likely originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... (1) Read: A Mysterious Crater Suddenly ...

More than a hundred million miles from Earth, between Mars and Jupiter, lies a region called the Asteroid Belt. Here, trillions of asteroids, enormous rocks left over from planet building ...

Let’s be honest: the asteroid belt is a bit of a mess. It is full of big rocks hurtling around at high speeds, occasionally getting tossed towards assorted planets, and generally causing a ruckus.

Decades of exploration of the Red Planet by space agencies across the ... animated clip UAE announces groundbreaking mission to asteroid belt, seeking clues to life's origins The future colonists ...