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

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the ...

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.

Meteorites like this offer invaluable insights into the formation and evolution of the solar system. "They transport us back ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a number of small asteroids, some of which may be heading towards Earth.

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 spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found many small asteroids. Some are heading towards Earth. These asteroids are smaller ...