A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter. That was something of a surprise to the researchers ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected this asteroid belt around the star Fomalhaut, only 25 light-years away. For years, scientists have studied Fomalhaut’s debris disk, ...

The first main belt comet was discovered in 1996, but “you can always explain one weirdo,” Dr. Snodgrass said, suggesting that the belt could have captured an interloping comet. However, eight ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

The biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt is Vesta. It's 329 miles or 530 kilometers in diameter. Asteroids are divided into three types based on their composition.

Lucy passed within 600 miles of the harmless asteroid known as Donaldjohanson on Sunday in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It’s named for the paleontologist who discovered the ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.

Hiding within the asteroid belt exists a world suffused with metal, where the surface may be covered in cliffs and craters of iron alloys. Glimpsed only as a bright speck in telescope images, no ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) China's Tianwen-2 mission is the first to target both a near-Earth asteroid and a main belt comet in a single journey.

About a year and a half ago, the United Arab Emirates announced an ambitious deep space mission to explore the asteroid belt, with the aim of visiting seven different asteroids.. The Arab country ...