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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

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 ...

The asteroid came from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is a group of asteroids 93 million miles away that follow Earth-like orbits, and will temporarily join the moon in its orbit around the Earth ...

temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two months before the forces of gravity return it to a vast field of space rocks known as the Arjuna asteroid belt that follows a similar orbital path ...

At about 140 miles (225 kilometers) in diameter, 16 Psyche is one of the most massive objects in the main asteroid belt. It's about 230 million miles (370 million kilometers) from Earth.

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