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

Our model, which begins with the degassing of ice from the original asteroid belt, successfully accounts for the amount of water needed to form oceans, rivers and lakes, and even the water buried ...

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 are found in the asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but some like "2025 DU25," have orbits that bring them closer to the Earth. These space rocks vary in size and ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) completed reviewing the critical design phase of the mission, with the participation of a group of Emirati and international experts, the UAE Space ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

There aren't just planets out there orbiting the sun, there are also chunks of rock, ice, and dust ... between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little ...