This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

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 ... Donaldjohanson in both black-and-white and infrared ...

The asteroid is Leona, a slowly rotating, oblong space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers hope to learn more about Betelgeuse and Leona through the eclipse ...

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected, astronomers found, using observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. Looking at the warm dust around a ...

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Asteroid Belt," Jay Tate, director of the Spaceguard Center ...

Whenever the plot starts to drag in a space sci-fi movie, the scriptwriter will throw in the dreaded "Asteroid Belt", or even the "Asteroid Storm". In the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back ...

located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But what astronomers thought was one asteroid is really a binary pair of space rocks. Hal Levison ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our asteroid belt is home to more than a million space rocks ...

The tips on how to freshen up your resume DUBAI – The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system's main asteroid belt, the latest space project by ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...

2024 PT5 is from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which orbits the sun, according to their study published in Research Notes of the AAs. But Earth's gravitational pull will draw 2024 PT5 towards it and ...