For a brief moment, Earth has been graced by a second moon—asteroid 2024 PT5—a celestial visitor that won’t be staying long.

NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...

R ecent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building ...

the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in October 2023. October 2023 is set to be ...

These families — called Karin, Koronos, and Massalia — were formed around five, seven, and 40 million years ago respectively in our solar system's main asteroid belt. Massalia was identified ...

distinct asteroid families in the main asteroid belt as the source of 70% of Earth's meteorites. "Asteroid families" refer to a population of asteroids, which could be composed of a handful or ...

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 ...

A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also shown, with green dots representing where the Jupiter Trojans are. Jupiter's first discovered Trojan, 588 Achilles, was identified in ...

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt. However, as they are relatively small ...

it probably originated from the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune," discovery team member Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at the University of Western Ontario, told Space.com. "The Trojan asteroid was in the ...