I grew up loving space documentaries, so I was genuinely annoyed when I realized how many “facts” I’d absorbed were just ...

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water and possibly early microbes that shaped life here. How a DNA test solved a ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might remember news reporting from earlier this year that a 180-foot asteroid had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. And if it did, it would unleash energy equivalent to hundreds of ...

An asteroid exploded over France two years ago in a rare single explosive event, raising concerns about future planetary defence from certain types of these rocky bodies. On 13 February 2023, a small ...

Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the asteroid Juno on September 1, 1804, using a 5-centimeter refracting telescope. Harding's discovery was part of a larger effort by the "Celestial Police" to locate a ...