"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...
Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...
Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...
The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Researchers found that 70% of meteorites originate from three asteroid families formed by recent collisions. They have ...
2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...
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The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered in 2023 and is on its way into the inner solar system. Early estimates ...
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.
"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...
From lunar water hunts to Mars sample returns, China's space program is embarking on groundbreaking missions across the solar ...