A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth ...

Asteroid bombardment Earth 800 million years ago: a new peer-reviewed study in The Planetary Science Journal links the ...

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the asteroid it's named after.

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

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 ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it's fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay's Universidad ...