A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Illustration by Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA In 2023, data from the JWST revealed the inner workings of the asteroid belt in the Fomalhaut star system. The nearby planetary system actually has ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

Karnal school students discover main belt asteroid Diksha and team recognised by NASA for TD40 asteroid Students honoured for ...

These "decameter" asteroids, measuring just tens of meters across, are more likely to escape the main asteroid belt and migrate in to become near-Earth objects. If they make impact, these small ...