The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
Of the 10% of meteorites without a known source, 6% come from the moon, Mars or Vesta, the latter one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All meteor showers ...
Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Pocked with craters ...
New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.
Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter ... Most of them exist within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.