A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and ...

NASA in September 2022 successfully crashed a vending machine-sized spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos while testing ways to change its course if an Earth-threatening asteroid, such as 2024 YR4, ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...