A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

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 ...

Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate. The researchers tracked ...

The article clarifies that fictional portrayals of asteroid fields, such as those depicting densely packed objects, are vastly overstated and do not reflect the true nature of the solar system's main ...

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 Earth will soon have a second mini-moon this fall. A newly discovered asteroid will orbit the planet starting in late September. What is Earth's 'second moon'? Scientists discovered asteroid 2024 ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...