A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt ... and that the "snow line" – the boundary between where ice could and couldn't exist in the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed it is closely monitoring an asteroid that could hit the Earth in 2032. The ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...

How on Earth was a Tesla Roadster electric sports car confused with an asteroid and what was it doing orbiting the sun in the ...

Asteroids in our solar system are mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, interactions with the gravity of the planets can cause an asteroid to be ejected from ...

The snow line is the minimum distance from the sun ... a massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. These findings suggest a complex history for this interesting asteroid ...

An asteroid the width of ... Follow the top star of the belt to the left shoulder — the famous Betelgeuse — and follow that in a straight line until you come to the constellation Gemini.

Dubai's Crown Prince on Thursday witnessed the signing of an agreement to develop the lander for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA ... of the programme, in line with the mission ...