It’s a perfect popcorn moment. Now, please forget all that as we address the question: How can spacecraft in this solar system pass through the asteroid belt unscathed? The simple answer is ...

Decameter asteroids — referring to asteroids tens of meters in size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Because smaller asteroids are more susceptible to sunlight ...

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 ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ... could do that using state-of-the-art GPUs -- graphics processing ...

This comet is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By analyzing the comet’s materials, researchers hope to learn more about the conditions that existed in the early solar ...

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...