Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which ... The Beyond Silos residency supports STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) educators to ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as the NASA ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

The Main Asteroid Belt is located between the orbits of Mars ... and MIT graduate student Samantha Hassler worked out how to use state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) to employ this ...