NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

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

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

This finding could provide insights into the asteroid's formation. Psyche: A unique asteroid in the main belt Asteroid 16 Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

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.

"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 ...

SEE ALSO: NASA to explore a metal asteroid that could be the core of a doomed planet 16 Psyche — which is 130 miles wide — could be the remains of the dead core of a planet whose outer layers ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s next asteroid mission will attempt to visit the space rock called 16 Psyche.

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 ...