NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid ... spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars.

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt ... in both black-and-white and infrared light.

The researchers found that 2024 YR4 likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has an unusually flat, disk-like shape, similar to a hockey puck, according to a statement ...

29 to Nov. 25. PT5 will then leave Earth's orbit and return to its asteroid belt, pulling toward the sun and then moving throughout the solar system. During its 56-day orbit, asteroid 2024 PT5 ...

which researchers named "2024 PT5," will temporarily orbit Earth before returning to an asteroid belt revolving around the sun. Scientists discovered the object Aug. 7 using the Asteroid ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

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 ...

They are principally found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. However, gravitational interactions (typically with the massive ...