The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

Of the 42 main asteroid belt objects, only three of the largest, the dwarf planet Ceres, and the asteroids Vesta and Lutetia, have been detailed so precisely before, ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.

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The asteroid belt, hanging out between Mars and Jupiter, is not like the cluttered debris field in “The Empire Strikes Back.” It may contain millions of rocky and metal objects, but the ...

A better understanding of the asteroid belt has revealed just how dynamic the solar system was in its early days, a new study reports. Over the past decade, astronomers have come to realize that ...

The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris around Vega makes the star similar to another observed star called Fomalhaut. The data are consistent with both stars having inner, warm belts ...