Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR ... Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory ... The gaps remained a mere curiosity of the solar system for about 100 years. The employment of new computer technologies ...

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...

Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR ... Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes ...

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space habitats or solar collectors. Mining would circumvent much of the costs of getting these into space from Earth entirely. "We looked at bringing asteroid resources back to Earth but the ...