The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Most of them are concentrated within the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. However, some may end up circulating into the inner solar system.

The 3:1 resonance with Jupiter is special, because for a century it appeared that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited this pattern, as well as at other seemingly arbitrary ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- until late 2026. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft slingshotted around Mars on Wednesday. The spacecraft used the planet's ...