Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive reveals ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
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Where do meteorites of different types come from?
For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
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, ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...