Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that ... the Arjuna asteroid belt," Marcos told the outlet. "Mini-moon" events occur when asteroids or floating pieces of space junk temporarily ...

we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby "We knew this was going to be the smallest main belt asteroid ever seen up close ...

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 ... wide at its widest point – is believed to be ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

NASA has launched a probe in the direction of a great metal asteroid called Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the ... of the coming commercial space age.

Comets normally fly in from the far reaches of space. Yet astronomers have found them seemingly misplaced in the asteroid belt. Why are they there? By Robin George Andrews What do you expect to ...

“The asteroid belt mission was the right amount of challenge,” said Sarah al-Amiri, chairwoman of the United Arab Emirates Space Agency ... color is believed to point to carbon-based ...