Hello! I'm Grok. Spaceships in movies desperately dodge rocks in an asteroid belt. Watching that scene, the area between Mars ...

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and an inner-solar-system-wide bombardment episode that may have had ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

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 ...

A space probe is on its way to an asteroid that may be filled with valuable metals worth some $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, or $10 quintillion. The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid ...

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...