Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

The geologic map of the asteroid belt. The x-axis shows how ... sometimes heading into the inner solar system and passing near Earth. Collisions between large asteroids in the belt can create ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt ... While this provides one of the most comprehensive maps of the asteroid belt to date, not all meteorites in ...

Any asteroid we detect is generally a fragment of a much larger body that was formed at the birth of our Solar System – Alan Fitzsimmons ... backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor.