A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. An examination ... the journey of the sample returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson, located 139 million miles away in the asteroid belt. This flyby serves as a cruci ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

Solar Wave Squeezed ... unidentified source regions in the asteroid ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...