Scattered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies the main asteroid belt — a vast region filled with rocky remnants left over from the birth of the solar system. These objects, known as asteroids ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 first revealed itself to humans on 27 December 2024, it seemed to have just shown up out of nowhere. An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

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 ...

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' has a keen way of keeping scientists on their toes, sending mixed signals for its composition, ...

En route to the largest known metallic asteroid in our solar system, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just got a boost from Mars—and ...

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on ...

An artist's illustration shows 2024 HR4, an asteroid with a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4’s star has faded when it comes to the general public, but scientists are pumped ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...