NASA has released the first high-resolution images of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unusual peanut-like shape following a key encounter by the Lucy spacecraft earlier this year.

Tianwen-2 is more than a spacecraft—it’s a symbol of China’s growing capability, curiosity, and commitment to exploring the universe. With a mission profile that spans two very different worlds and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter, a region not known to produce Earth-crossing asteroids, according ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track The chance is slim — a mere 2% — that the space rock will smack Earth.

MindArk PE AB, the Swedish developer behind Entropia Universe - the real-cash economy metaverse - has activated real-time interplanetary teleporters ...

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.

While most asteroids orbit along an invisible gravitational freeway between Mars and Jupiter known as the Main Asteroid Belt, Bennu lies along an orbital plane roughly 105 million miles from the sun.