When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and ...

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

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. A team of astronomers led by Julio Fernández ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

NASA's Psyche mission is en route to a metal-rich asteroid, aiming to understand its composition, while US startups are actively developing technologies for asteroid mining. Asteroids hold ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...