There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

The assistant did not initially add Pluto, the far-flung dwarf planet companion at the edge of the solar system — or the asteroid belt. It only took a few English prompts to get them added to the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter, a region not known to produce Earth-crossing asteroids, according ...

The team behind the study also compared the newly discovered asteroid’s orbit with that of near-Earth objects, and found that 2024 YR4 likely originated between the inner and central main belt.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for Earth-crossing space rocks, a new study finds.

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...