Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

“We chose this model, despite its relative imprecision ... an asteroid rich in metals that’s also located in the asteroid belt. Maybe with enough time and a little more research, CUDOs like 33 ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

The larger fragments of collisions take longer to move from the asteroid belt to Earth-crossing orbits ... This explanation is plausible, but the model that the authors used in their simulations ...

Recent research has established that approximately 70 percent of all known meteorite falls can be traced back to three young asteroid families: Karin, Koronis, and Massalia. This significant finding ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder that Earth is part of a ...

Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel The initiative, part of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, marks one of the largest space initiatives undertaken by the UAE.

Leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago, asteroids primarily orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in what’s known as the main asteroid belt, where millions of them ...