NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

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

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upcoming flyby on April 20, 2025? This | ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...