NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter. That was something of a surprise to the researchers ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft in 2019.