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

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ... worlds outside the solar system that may be habitable.

These "decameter" asteroids, measuring just tens of meters across, are more likely to escape the main asteroid belt and migrate ... worlds outside the solar system that may be habitable.

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing a population of small asteroids in the main asteroid belt ... worlds outside the solar system that may be habitable.

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

The solar system’s main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter ... moving objects. Using state-of-the-art GPUs, the team processed over 10,000 JWST images of the TRAPPIST-1 field that were ...

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...

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 ...

As a result, they spotted the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt ... an early detection system for observing and tracking asteroids. When an asteroid somewhat bigger than a cat ...