It’s a perfect popcorn moment. Now, please forget all that as we address the question: How can spacecraft in this solar system pass through the asteroid belt unscathed? The simple answer is ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide near-Earth asteroid believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. However, it has since moved to cross Earth's orbit, located 300 ...

They identified an unexpectedly large number of tiny asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. These small asteroids, ranging in size from that of a bus to several stadiums ...

Decameter asteroids — referring to asteroids tens of meters in size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Because smaller asteroids are more susceptible to sunlight ...

The solar system’s main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter ... This method involves aligning and stacking multiple images of the same field to highlight faint, moving objects. Using state ...

“We now understand more about how small objects in the asteroid belt are formed and how many there could be,” said Tom Greene, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California ...

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core ...

The success of this investigation was allowed because of the extraordinary sensitivity of the JWST which, being in space far from Earth, with its large mirror and state-of-the-art instrumentation is ...

Illustration by Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA In 2023, data from the JWST revealed the inner workings of the asteroid belt in the Fomalhaut star system. The nearby planetary system actually has ...