Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid that’s approaching Earth at a zippy 36,216 miles per hour. The asteroid—known as “2025 TC”—is projected to make its closest approach at just 53,400 miles from ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...