Japanese Prime Minsiter Shigeru Ishiba has showed a determination to defend rules-based free and multilateral trade systems ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

The researchers found that 2024 YR4 likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has an unusually flat, disk-like shape, similar to a hockey puck, according to a statement ...

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 ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Where do meteorites of different type come ...

The asteroid follows an elongated orbit around the Sun and currently is moving away from Earth in a nearly straight line. Scientists ... samples and conduct a main-belt comet study.

Professor Christopher Collins, an emeritus astrophysics professor from Liverpool John Moores University, said: “Asteroids originate form the Asteroid Belt ... almost a straight line, making ...

The orbit brings the asteroid inside of Earth's orbit at its closest point to the Sun and then into the outer part of the asteroid belt when ... Earth in almost a straight line.

Most asteroids can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. The asteroid ... away ...

An asteroid the width of ... Follow the top star of the belt to the left shoulder — the famous Betelgeuse — and follow that in a straight line until you come to the constellation Gemini.