Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel The initiative, part of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, marks one of the largest space initiatives undertaken by the UAE.

Artist illustration of asteroid belt (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The current path of the asteroid also enabled researchers to trace its origins. They suspect it comes from the Arjuna asteroid belt ...

Earth is about to pluck a second moon from an asteroid belt — but we only get this mini-moon for 57 days. It's an asteroid about the size of a school bus, at 35 feet long, and it has a typical ...

Jedicke was not involved in the new study. Asteroid 2024 PT5 came from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.

Leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago, asteroids primarily orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in what’s known as the main asteroid belt, where millions of them ...

Leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago, asteroids primarily orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter ...

Leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago, asteroids primarily orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in what’s known as the main asteroid belt, where millions of them ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the ...