According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...

this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day call “Bennu.” Eventually ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt ... be an asteroid from beyond the solar system's "snow line" that migrated to the asteroid belt. The snow line is the minimum distance ...

It seeks to offer a better understanding of the formation of our solar system, explore the water-rich origins ... and development of the lander for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, a ...

Researchers have observed the first object of its kind - a carbon-rich asteroid ... solar system... where they could remain today. Seccull says that there are more objects in the Kuiper Belt ...

Now European Southern Observatory (ESO) thinks one of the objects floating along the main belt might be the smallest dwarf planet in our solar system — an asteroid known as Hygiea. Hygiea isn ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid ...

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 ...

The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...

Now, using isotope samples from geological sites thought to have been bathed in this atmospheric impact, researchers suggest ...