The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Jennisken’s colleague ... are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids ...

which inhabits the Solar System's main asteroid belt. It's thought this asteroid could be up to 95% nickel and iron, which is similar to the Earth's core. Studying it will therefore increase our ...

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 ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Simpson and Chen’s work also sheds light on why our solar system is structured the way it is. The absence of a super-Earth in ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system ... And so our probes have mostly plied the relatively cozy confines inside the asteroid belt, visiting ...

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our own ... when it zipped through the inner solar system in 2017, and the more conventionally shaped comet/asteroid hybrid 2I/Borisov, which was ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...