The Asteroid Belt is a part of space between Mars and Jupiter. Find out more about the solar bodies that live in this region of space. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, an international team including University of Liège astronomers report the detection of 138 new decameter rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt. The ...

Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked between Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt, a region that, for ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting in the rocky belt of debris located between Mars and Jupiter. A ...

The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager. This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its April 20 flyby.