On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...

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 ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, and about 40 million years ago. The team also revealed the sources of other types of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

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.

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, the 450-meter-wide asteroid will pass remarkably close to Earth on ...

Jupiter has so many because it lies next to the asteroid belt and has a massive gravitational pull. NASA has plans to send a probe to several of them over the years 2027 to 2033. Researchers ...