A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...

When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and Jupiter. Yet, the truth is far more captivating—and urgent. According to a ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

LOS ANGELES — A NASA spacecraft has spied what appears to be an inactive volcano on the surface of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The volcano is about half as ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be ...