Using a worldwide network of cameras and footage from citizen scientists ... “We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt.” Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between ... Other scientists and citizen observers around the world joined in, forming what is now ...

A new study reports that this space rock likely hails from the central region of the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will carry out a flyby of the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20 at 1:51 p.m. ET, when it will come within an eerily close distance of 59 ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from.

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered about the mysteries lurking beyond our Earth? The asteroid belt, a ...

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed ...

Scientists said it most likely originated in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and is rich in silicates. At one point earlier this year, NASA and the European Space Agency put the ...