NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids ...

Comets normally fly in from the far reaches of space. Yet astronomers have found them seemingly misplaced in the asteroid belt. Why are they there?

The Asteroid Belt is a part of space between Mars and Jupiter. Find out more about the solar bodies that live in this region of space. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet JWST's observations of the young star can help reveal how solar systems like ours formed. Briley Lewis May 8, 2023 2:00 PM EDT ...

NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks.

After its brief stint as a mini-moon, the intergalactic gravel will get yanked back toward the sun and return to its alleged home in the Arjuna asteroid belt — a mass of small asteroids that ...

DART’s plunge into the asteroid destroyed the spacecraft, but it’s only the beginning of the mission’s next phase: parsing the data it sent back and assessing its impact, which will take ...