Utilizing archival James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data and novel synthetic tracking algorithms, researchers identified 138 asteroids smaller than 100 meters in diameter within the main asteroid ...

We've all heard about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a colossal rock 10 kilometers wide. However, there are some smaller ones too. These space rocks are called decameter asteroids, which ...

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Once thought to be the debris of a destroyed planet, the asteroid belt is now understood as a region shaped by gravity, collisions and the powerful influence of Jupiter. Studying it helps scientists ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Asteroids Belt: Try to Survive! Asteroids Belt is an arcade game where you have to fly through the asteroid belt in a spaceship, destroying them along the ...

In this image, the Dawn spacecraft's three xenon electrostatic ion thrusters can be seen emitting ionized xenon's characteristic blue/magenta glow, gently propelling the probe toward the dwarf planet ...

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have ...