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

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

How do spacecraft avoid collisions when passing through the asteroid belt? Val-David SmithsonPleasant Grove, Utah Let's begin ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ... could do that using state-of-the-art GPUs -- graphics processing ...

with its large mirror and state of the art instrumentation is particularly sensitive to infrared rather than visible light. “And as it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are ...

Gembloux : The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter ...