Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

A new scientific study has revealed that the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter is slowly disappearing. Researchers say the belt, which contains millions of rocky bodies, has been steadily ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...