While this distance is no cause for concern, 1998 OR2 will continue on its 3.7-year orbit around the sun, venturing into the asteroid belt beyond Mars and circling back inside Earth’s orbit with ...

They are part of a spike in impacts during the Ordovician period, which scientists have tied to a possible collision in the asteroid belt that sent a parade of meteorites hurtling toward our ...

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Astronomers have identified a cluster of giant asteroids sharing Venus's orbit, posing a potential long-term threat to Earth ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

The mission we propose here, the Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS), explores the diversity of asteroids to understand our solar system's past history, its present ...

An asteroid goes missing, and it’s not what you’d expect… What secrets are drifting in the belt? Germany's Merz says some US lawmakers have 'no idea' of scale of Russia's rearmament Cheers ...

Here’s a look at five of the richest ones discovered so far. 1. 16 Psyche – The Metallic Core of a Lost World Sitting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 16 Psyche stands out as one of the ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft launched on May 28 on a landmark asteroid sample return mission, aiming first to explore the near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa before returning to Earth orbit and eventually ...

Tianwen-2 is set to reach the asteroid in July 2026 and shoot a capsule packed with rocks back to Earth for a landing in November 2027. Then it will fly to its second target, main-belt comet 311P ...

researchers hope to determine whether it was once part of the Moon — and was chipped away during a collision event — or has escaped from the asteroid belt that circles between Mars and Jupiter.