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 ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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.

Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little closer to earth, where they can cause problems.

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 ...

Instead, 20008 Adacarrera is a “main-belt” asteroid that floats comfortably in the asteroid belt, always staying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Amongst millions of other floating space rocks ...

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 ...