On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of ...

The solar system’s main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, is home to millions of rocky objects. These asteroids orbit at an average of 250 million kilometers (155 million miles) from ...

Gembloux [Belgium], December 9 (ANI): The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of around 250 million km ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were too small. This is changing. Using a new approach, an international ...

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. We’ve all heard about the asteroid that wiped out the ...

The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.

The Main Asteroid Belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The largest objects there have been known for hundreds of years, but new smaller rocks orbiting in this region are ...

13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago ... 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.