The biggest asteroid belt member, and the only dwarf planet found there, is Ceres, which is about 1000 km across. The total mass of the Asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0 to 3.6×1021 kilograms ...

All of this information suggests that the asteroid came from the main asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter. That was something of a surprise to the researchers ...

Landing on ‘red’ asteroid (269) Justitia is one of seven Main Belt asteroids that the spacecraft will observe during high-speed flybys using a high-resolution camera, a thermal infrared camera ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

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 ...

The near-Earth asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to be up to 300 feet across. Skip to Article. ... They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.

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 ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of ...

Starting from Sept. 29, the asteroid, which was discovered by NASA on Aug. 7 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, will be orbiting the Earth for about two months until Nov. 25.