From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of strange, wandering worlds are rewriting what we know – and even how ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Scientists know that the vast majority of meteorites that come crashing down to Earth originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

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 ...

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt. However, as they are relatively small ...

Believers in ancient myths might conclude Saturn had eaten the Trojan asteroids, as the Roman god did his children ... it can ...

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 ...

In Asterogues, pick your character from a band of outcasts banished to the Asteroid Belt, dodge and shoot your way through ..

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

distinct asteroid families in the main asteroid belt as the source of 70% of Earth's meteorites. "Asteroid families" refer to a population of asteroids, which could be composed of a handful or ...