A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and Jupiter. Yet, the truth is far more captivating—and urgent. According to a ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope. That telescope searches ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...