While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours.

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting in the rocky belt of debris located between Mars and ...

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Where do meteorites come from? A new analysis of 75 fall events suggests that meteorites with different geologies travel from different places in the asteroid belt, which separates Mars and Jupiter.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system’s asteroid belt, wasn’t just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

adjusting through different wavelengths by tiny differences of a billionth of a meter. In effect, it’s like taking a series of different photographs, each one filtered for a different color.

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Meanwhile, 311P is part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Its physical composition is like those of comets, but its orbital characteristics resemble those of asteroids ...

A team of astronomers recently studied the asteroid in more detail and found that 2024 YR4 likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... its size is between 98 to 213 feet (30 to 65 ...