A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April. reading time 2 minutes The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

The most dangerous asteroids are the most difficult to detect.” Carnegie Science’s Scott S. Sheppard’s caution is no ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

Other than fictional representations, like Harry Vanderspeigle in SYFY and USA Network's Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock), as far as we know, life has only ever arisen here on Earth. But the ...

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 ...