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

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

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 ...

This artist’s concept of Comet 238P/Read shows the main belt comet sublimating—its water ice vaporizing as its orbit approaches the Sun Photo: NASA, ESA ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

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 ...

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💡 ...

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 ...

Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student, made the initial detection of the asteroid, now temporarily named ‘2023 OG40’, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The array of temperamental chemicals already found in the sample is “consistent with an outer-solar-­system origin,” says Kelly Miller, a cosmochemist at the Southwest Research Institute in ...

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