YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

Most of them are concentrated within the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between ... as well as where exactly it entered the atmosphere. For example, if it happened somewhere over ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

There are millions of rocks orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in a region known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and pick up a new course, such as this one.

Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little closer to earth, where they can cause problems.