A new discovery by European scientists confirms that 70 percent of all meteorites that fall on Earth originate from just three asteroid families from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The individual has a tall, lanky body with elongated limbs and fingers, adapted for efficient movement in the asteroid belt’s low gravity ... almost crystalline texture, resistant to the ...

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

There are millions of rocks orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in a region known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and pick up a new course, such as this one.

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

Asteroids—small, rocky masses left over from the formation of the solar system around 4.6 billion years ago—are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid. ESA-Science Office It seems that Earth isn’t likely to be struck by ...