A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...

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

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) completed reviewing the critical design phase of the mission, with the participation of a group of Emirati and international experts, the UAE Space ...

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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.

There are millions of rocks orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in a region known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and pick up a new course, such as this one.

Asteroids are left over remnants from the formation of the solar system, mostly rock, but also metallic, or icy bodies that tend to live in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Space ...

First discovered on March 2, 1981 by the American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory, it orbits within the inner regions of the main asteroid belt. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will ...

Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as the NASA ...