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Most do laps around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, some as small as rubble, and others hundreds of miles in diameter.
Earth May Have Over 6 Temporary "Mini-Moons" At Any Given Time. They're Made Of Moon According to a new study, Earth's mini-moons may not be from the asteroid belt after all. They're made of Moon.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted dozens of boulders drifting from asteroid Dimorphos — space shrapnel flung loose after the agency's DART mission intentionally crashed a spacecraft into it.
NASA is monitoring an airplane-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth on July 28 at a zippy 46,908 miles per hour.
Scientists have examined the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, finding evidence that it is packed with water that could be older than the solar system.
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.
The so-called ‘city-killer’ asteroid, 2024 YR4, which officials briefly feared had a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth, is suspected to be 300 feet across.
In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery offers a rare vision of how Earth-like worlds may begin.
If you thought our moon was the only satellite circling the Earth, think again. Astronomers have revealed a shocking number of tiny bodies are also up there as well.
In physical space, it orbits four astronomical units from Betelgeuse, which in our solar system would put it between the outer edge of the main asteroid belt and Jupiter.
The action is unfolding in a location comparable to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter containing the leftover building blocks of our solar system’s planets.