A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

While many people associate asteroids with the Asteroid Belt that separates Mars and Jupiter, Deskur said that there are smaller clusters throughout space, with some near Earth. Due to these ...

As the solar system formed, many C-type asteroids came to inhabit the outskirts of the main asteroid belt, a ring containing ...

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...

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 ...

The solar system stretches outward from the sun, passing the four inner planets, through the asteroid belt, past the four gas giants, and continues to the disk-shaped Kuiper Belt, extending even ...

The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and belongs to the poorly known sub-kilometer category in the Main Belt. A previously unknown asteroid about 300-650 feet/100–200 ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

They found traces of a rare element called ruthenium, which matched the composition of carbon-based asteroids in the asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter. However, the new study ...