Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

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 ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11 million kilometers from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and ... are why the red planet appears blue in some of the photos.

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 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid ... spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars.

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Latest updates related to development of MBR Explorer in focus The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)'s critical design phase review was done by a group of Emirati and international experts.