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

New research has the answer. By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids ...

Another eight per cent of the Earth meteorites can be traced to the Flora and Nysa asteroid families in the main asteroid belt, the research found. And about six per cent of the meteorites can be ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...

Three new studies have revealed the common origin of most of the meteorites that hit Earth, linking them to collisions in the ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by ...

Now, people are being invited to have their own version of the space walk as they encounter each of the eight planets and the asteroid belt as they cover a 1.2-kilometre section of the John Muir Way.

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of ...