NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

That distance is, astronomically speaking, vanishingly small, smaller than the distance at which some satellites orbit our planet ... years ago in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

About 466 million years ago, Earth was bombarded with a massive swarm of space rocks violently crashing on our planet, likely the result of a large asteroid breaking up into smaller fragments ...

and lies in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 5 . But these objects account for only 10% of ordinary chondrite falls, and the origins of the remaining 90% had yet to be found ...

which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's primary companion, the moon, has lingered around our planet for around 4 billion years since its ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres ...

it will leave the planet’s neighbourhood “shortly afterwards”, until its next return in 2055, scientists say. Artist illustration of asteroid belt (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The current path of the ...

Earth is about to pluck a second moon from an asteroid belt — but we only get this mini ... following a horseshoe-like path around our planet until November 25, when it will return to an orbit ...

Nasa telescopes have spotted a small asteroid due to enter our planet's orbit from 29 September ... PT5 likely came from the Arjuna asteroid belt - a group of space rocks that follow Earth ...

Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet. During this ... home in the Arjuna asteroid belt — a mass of small asteroids that ...