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Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers, and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown asteroid impact hidden in tiny glass fragments scattered across South Australia. Curtin University scientists have contributed to the discovery of ...

Liquid water on asteroids reshapes how we understand the early solar system. A group of scientists, including researchers ...

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

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander, before gathering a sample and returning it to ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our planet is even harder. This is ...

An electron microscope image, colorized, shows different structures of pollen grains, including sunflower, morning glory and primrose. Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility If pollen allergies are ...