The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved ... bodies in the main asteroid belt.

Now, using isotope samples from geological sites thought to have been bathed in this atmospheric impact, researchers suggest ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach ...

However, they would have later moved into the solar system following gravitational resonances with their orbits and Neptune. But how exactly does this asteroid-comet hybrid tell us more about the ...

The Carbon in Our Bodies Probably Left the Galaxy and Came Back on Cosmic 'Conveyer Belt ... asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt ... size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...