Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Main-belt comets exhibit comet-like activity and asteroid-like orbits within the asteroid belt. The administration said that mission planners want to accomplish two major engineering goals through ...

A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at 1:31 am on Thursday, sending the Tianwen 2 probe into a transfer orbit from Earth to the ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.

Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student, made the initial detection of the asteroid, now temporarily named ‘2023 OG40’, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Daksh Malik, a young boy from Noida, India, recently discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, earning official recognition from NASA. This discovery highlights ...

Daksh Malik, a 14-year-old from Noida, discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery Project and now has the chance to name it. His asteroid, '2023 OG40,' highlights his keen ...

UAE Asteroid Belt mission The agreement was signed by Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Sports and Chairman of the UAE Space Agency, and Faisal Al Bannai, Secretary-General of the Advanced ...

The asteroid belt is no stranger to cosmic collisions. Many of its objects bear scars and craters from countless strikes over billions of years, such as the asteroid named Vesta. But when NASA’s Dawn ...

Thus, even the preternaturally anxious C-3PO should be able to calmly tell any space smuggler that “the probability of colliding with an asteroid in the main belt is 1 in a billion.” ...