The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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 method involves shifting multiple images of the same field of view ... As it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are much brighter at infrared wavelengths than at visible ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The newfound ...

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

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The method involves shifting multiple images of the same field of view ... As it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are much brighter at infrared wavelengths than at visible ...

After processing the images, the researchers were able to ... “And as it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are much brighter at infrared wavelengths than at visible ...

The Main Asteroid Belt is located between the orbits of Mars ... The team of researchers behind this new discovery cleverly reused images from the search for exoplanets. Stacks of images looking ...