Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...

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 small ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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 ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.