A major asteroid breakup in the main asteroid belt may have triggered a long-lasting bombardment of Earth, the Moon, and Mars ...

A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Asteroid bombardment Earth 800 million years ago: a new peer-reviewed study in The Planetary Science Journal links the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." When you ...

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 catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...