Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the moon and Mars. This is probably a result of ...

The Cretaceous period ended in a terrible disaster that had its origins beyond Jupiter. An asteroid more than six miles wide slammed into prehistoric Central America, kicking off a global heat ...

An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles ... showing that it was a type that originated beyond Jupiter in the outer solar system. Sign up here. The impactor, based on the debris composition, ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study reveals. News. By Sharmila Kuthunur published 15 August 2024 ...