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

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Kota: Four students of Mahatma Gandhi govt school, Pachpahar, a modest town in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, have discovered a hitherto unknown .

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11mn km from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... snapping around 600 pictures, including rare ones of Deimos.