like a hockey puck. All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter. That was something of a surprise to ...

The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the morning. Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight for a few evenings, both ...

Numerous small asteroids in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars were found by ... fast-moving objects like asteroids that often get lost in the background noise of faraway stars.