Using the James Webb Space Telescope's capabilities, scientists captured the first asteroid belt seen outside the solar system – and it's more complex than expected.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Our asteroid belt is home to more than a million space rocks, varying in size from a dwarf planet to dust particles, which float between Jupiter and Mars. Astronomers have just discovered another ...

Most meteorites that impact the Earth come from the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter's orbits, where over a million space rocks, each more than 0.6 miles wide, circle the sun.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

The first main belt comet was discovered in 1996, but “you can always explain one weirdo,” Dr. Snodgrass said, suggesting that the belt could have captured an interloping comet. However, eight ...

In the asteroid belt, the dodo isn’t extinct, Elvis isn’t dead, and James Bond is real. Mother Teresa is there, too, along with Jesse Owens, Beethoven, a bunch of astronomers’ kids and the ...