When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

The project is arguably a much more daunting undertaking than making it to Mars because the asteroid belt is much farther away (sitting between Mars and Jupiter), and the team will have to contend ...

Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt. A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the ...

Dubbed the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, the project aims to develop a spacecraft in the coming years and then launch it in 2028 to study various asteroids.

Most of the identified asteroids were located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project ...

In February 2030, the spacecraft will arrive at Westerwald, a 1.4-mile-wide asteroid, zipping past at 20,000 miles per hour on its way to visit six more objects in the asteroid belt between Mars ...

"We knew this was going to be the smallest main belt asteroid ever seen up close," Keith Noll, Lucy project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement today ...

The asteroid is Leona, a slowly rotating, oblong space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers hope to learn more about Betelgeuse and Leona through the eclipse, which ...

Fomalhaut, a 440-million-year-old star, has a debris disk and two rings, akin to our asteroid and Kuiper belts. Adam Block Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has ...