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

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

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 ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...