Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

16 Psyche, sometimes simply called Psyche ... This places Psyche in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, between 2.5 and 3.3 times further from the sun than Earth is.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

NASA to launch Psyche mission on October 12 to reveal mysteries of the metal-rich asteroid Psyche mission, the first such to a metal-rich asteroid, may be able to tell the world "how rocky planets ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

Latest updates related to development of MBR Explorer in focus The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)'s critical design phase review was done by a group of Emirati and international experts.