What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in with mission controllers on Earth. This keeps the mission on track for its ...

The dwarf planet Ceres is arguably one of the most overlooked and underappreciated planetary objects in the solar system. This could be because while Ceres has the same dwarf planet designation as ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

How did the researchers find these little asteroids so far away? They devised a new method to look for small asteroids in the main asteroid belt. Interestingly, it uses a technique also used for ...

The main asteroid belt in our solar system is located between Mars and Jupiter. And although it is considered to be the most stable element, this could well change. Indeed, it seems to be slowly ...

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 to 14.

The distinctive belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter may have been shaped during a game of planetary pinball almost 4 billion years ago. A new study suggests that the migration of the mighty gas ...