While most asteroids orbit along an invisible gravitational freeway between Mars and Jupiter known as the Main Asteroid Belt, Bennu lies along an orbital plane roughly 105 million miles from the sun.

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words, it was a treasure chest moving ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

Asteroids are small, irregularly shaped objects that orbit the Sun, mainly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Khaleej Times reached out to experts in the UAE to understand what ...

WASHINGTON — The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also brought opportunities for new life. Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help ...

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If the impactors originated from a collision in the distant asteroid belt, the meteorites would have struck random locations on Earth, rather than falling along a narrow stripe, Tomkins explained.

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The Perseid meteor shower over ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier is apologizing for playing a misleadingly edited clip in an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris sat down with Baier on Wednesday for a tense interview ...