Cape Canaveral, Fla. — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper and stadium will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. NASA says it will happen around 9:41 a.m. EST. There's no chance of it ...

The Asteroid Belt is a part of space between Mars and Jupiter. Find out more about the solar bodies that live in this region of space. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." The ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment. The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught ...