NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

An asteroid more than six miles in diameter slammed into what is today Mexico READ MORE: Enjoy a glass of wine? Thank the extinction of the dinosaurs! It is well known that the reign of the ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

Most asteroids originate from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where over one million space rocks orbit the Sun. Occasionally, Jupiter's massive gravitational force pulls some ...

They are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. The orbits of asteroids bring them within 120 million miles of the sun.

Small asteroids are also called meteoroids ... Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across ...

Scientists believe that Earth accreted from rocky building blocks as ... that icy asteroids, scattered into the Earth’s path by the formation and growth of Jupiter, had bombarded Earth and ...