Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in diameter (12.4 kilometers), is tidally-locked with the Red Planet making it often ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially raising impact ... but coordinated global efforts and advanced data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam have reduced this risk to nearly zero. This underscores the importance ...

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 ...

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In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ... of the planet and Deimos in the same frame. A black and white camera with a resolution of 1020 by 1020 pixels was used to capture the images ...