A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its ...

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

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

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 ...

Illustration of the main asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and JupiterNASA NASA's powerful James Webb Space ...

Decameter asteroids — referring to asteroids tens of meters in size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Because smaller asteroids are more susceptible to sunlight ...

The UAE is developing a space craft to land on an asteroid belt beyond Mars.

The asteroid field we encountered in that galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago was purely fictional and preposterously overcrowded. The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and ...

"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many, many ...

Dubai's Crown Prince on Thursday witnessed the signing of an agreement to develop the lander for the Emirates Mission to the ...