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.

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

These "decameter" asteroids, measuring just tens of meters across, are more likely to escape the main asteroid belt and migrate in ... do that using state-of-the-art GPUs—graphics processing ...

These “decameter” asteroids, measuring just tens of meters across, are more likely to escape the main asteroid belt and migrate ... do that using state-of-the-art GPUs — graphics processing ...