NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

But the asteroid belt is downright spacious. If the arcade game Asteroids were real, it would pretty much consist of a ship and a black screen and … nothing to shoot.

Ceres accounts for nearly a third of the asteroid belt's mass, and is the largest "dwarf planet" in the solar system, outranking Pluto. Dawn will be the first spacecraft to orbit one body, let ...

But some estimate that the real asteroid belt actually lost some 90 to 95% of its asteroids. The slower the planets’ migration, the more asteroids will be lost due to gravitational interactions ...

The Greatest Mysteries of the Asteroid Belt Each Friday, Life's Little Mysteries, presents The Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos, starting with our solar system. July 12, 2011, 11:19 AM EDT ...

From there, Dawn will go on to orbit the belt's biggest object, Ceres, in 2015. Ceres accounts for nearly a third of the asteroid belt's mass, and is the largest "dwarf planet" in the solar system ...

In the asteroid belt, the dodo isn’t extinct, Elvis isn’t dead, and James Bond is real. Mother Teresa is there, too, along with Jesse Owens, Beethoven, a bunch of astronomers’ kids and the ...

Though it’s technically an asteroid and a dwarf planet, some scientists regard Ceres to be a real planet—the tiniest in our solar system. However it’s classified, we know shockingly little ...

The real-world version is a 2 kilometer-wide asteroid called 46610 Bésixdouze, and it’s a charming reminder that even grownup scientists aren’t hopelessly reasonable all the time.

That is the real prize, to know what the main belt looked like just after it formed.” How did they find it? By using a new technique that looked for the “edges” of asteroid families.

2021 KT1, a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid, flew past Earth at 40,000 mph. 2021 KT1, a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid, ... While there was no real danger to Earth, ...