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Some are as small as 10 meters in diameter, hiding between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. These were spotted using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an innovative technique called ...
The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...
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 ...
"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...
Lucy will now spend most of the rest of 2025 hurtling through the solar system’s main asteroid belt as it closes in on its main target–the Jupiter Trojan asteroid Eurybates. The spacecraft’s ...
Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, though some, called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), pass much closer to our planet. Studying these rocky bodies helps scientists ...
The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...