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

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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

An asteroid the ... In fact, the solar system is littered with asteroids — debris left over from the formation of the solar system. The largest number are in a belt between the orbits of Mars ...

The UAE is developing a space craft to land on an asteroid belt beyond Mars.

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is special – and new observations from JWST reveal how truly Chiron is like ...

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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 ...

NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, ...