There are millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt (and perhaps just as many trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit), and some of them potentially contain precious metals worth more than all the money ...

As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is buzzing with exciting missions, new technologies, and a renewed focus ...

Answer: There was some concern a few years ago when asteroid Apophis was discovered in 2004. Astronomers have gotten better ...

Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff ...

On April 20, Lucy will encounter a small main-belt asteroid, Donaldjohanson, as a sort of test sequence before it visits seven Trojan asteroids. The asteroid, called DJ for short, is only 2.5 ...

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is ...