Researchers were able to discover over 100 small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. These asteroids, ranging from the size ...

A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

Unlike their larger counterparts, which are rare and strike Earth every 100 to 500 million years, like the one that killed ...

The Main Asteroid Belt's smallest ever asteroids have been detected, as discovered in a new study. The belt is located ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

The majority of the known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter at an average ...

A celestial object found in 2021 within the asteroid belt was confirmed as a main-belt comet, distinguished by its icy composition and comet-like behaviors when near the Sun. Researchers emphasize the ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system became quickly the most observed and the best characterized exoplanetary system. In 2023, Gillon and ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up to 14.

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," ...