“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upcoming flyby on April 20, 2025? This | ...

“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and those wiseacres who preferred planetary annihilation to Hillary, Biden ...

Chicxulub impact megaripples mapped deep beneath Louisiana’s surface 3D seismic data shows tsunami-driven formations spanning 900 sq miles Ripples help scientists study ancient tsunamis and future ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

NASA has confirmed that a 150-foot-wide asteroid, 2025 DA7, is set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, March 12, 2025, at 5:41 AM IST. While this celestial object will pass at a safe distance ...

ABU DHABI, 11th March, 2025 (WAM) -- The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) between ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact extend ... extensive set of petroleum industry 3D seismic data and found that these tsunami ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

March 9 (UPI) --Iran, China and Russia will launch a joint military operation Monday called "Security Belt 2025," designed to promote security and trilateral cooperation in the Indian Ocean.