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

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

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

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 ...

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

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

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 ...

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

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families ... asteroid orbits are tilted relative to the plane of the planets. Blue lines are the delivery resonances.