Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy revives the debate about the origin of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

The asteroid, named (2024 UQ1), measures between 25.3 feet and 55.8 feet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), but is likely to be ...

As for the asteroid belt, on average it is about 200 million miles from Earth. The fastest a spacecraft could reach them with current technology is 6-9 months. What Kinds of Minerals Could We Find?

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When you purchase ...

New photos of the recently discovered asteroid 2024 MK, which zoomed past Earth in late June, reveal that the massive space ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Most of the asteroids we’ve observed orbit in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a good chunk of them—known as Near Earth Objects or NEOs—have orbits that ...

Apophis, which measures about 1,100 feet across, originated about 4.6 billion years ago in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is an S-class asteroid, characterized by silicate material ...

They usually orbit within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. Comets are small sun-orbiting bodies that contain ice and usually get vaporized when they approach the ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter. That was something of a surprise to the researchers ...