Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our ...

Meanwhile, up to 3,350 craters larger than 1 kilometer could have water, narrowed down to 20 larger than 19 kilometers with concentrated deposits. This means the Moon represents a statistically richer ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

This correlates remarkably well with geological evidence from the moon and Earth showing a declining bombardment rate over ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a ...

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson once stated that the world's first trillionaire will be the person who takes up intergalactic mining. Indeed, according to some calculations, a single asteroid could earn you ...