"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

which inhabits the Solar System's main asteroid belt. It's thought this asteroid could be up to 95% nickel and iron, which is similar to the Earth's core. Studying it will therefore increase our ...

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

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found ...

The solar system contains hundreds of dwarf planets, including Ceres, which can be found in the asteroid belt. Asteroids are made of metals and rocky material. There are many asteroids in our ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." Related: Alpha Centauri: Facts about the stars ... conventionally shaped comet/asteroid hybrid 2I/Borisov, which ...

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 ...

For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar ...

These asteroids are thought to be ancient remnants from the early solar system. And the University of Hawaii has been selected to be a part of this history making adventure. Here are some facts to ...