Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...

This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found. The ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

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Fifty-five years earlier, on April 24, China's first artificial satellite, Dongfanghong-1, was launched, heralding the nation ...

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Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...