An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid ... in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer ...

formed through collisions in the main asteroid belt, specifically 5.8 million years ago, 7.5 million years ago, and 40 million years ago. That may seem like a long time ago to our feeble human ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

Most of the meteorites that land on Earth today can be traced back to just three recent collisions out in the asteroid belt, according to a pair of recent studies. It’s hard to trace meteorites ...

Collisions in the main asteroid belt send rocky fragments flying haphazardly through space, with some of those eventually striking Earth. "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had ...

This historic discovery was made possible by a telescopic survey of the composition of all the major asteroid families in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer simulations of the ...

and lies in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 5. But these objects account for only 10% of ordinary chondrite falls, and the origins of the remaining 90% had yet to be found ...

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.

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...