An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. The asteroid, named ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid ... of this inner nebular field was somewhere between 50 to 200 microtesla, and it likely ...

of our planet, or about 32 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Alinda isn't predicted to make another close approach to Earth until 2087. While an asteroid this big could ...

Whether there is a planet/planets in the gap between the belts remains to be seen. The images also reveal a large dust cloud within the outer ring, which the authors call the “Great Dust Cloud ...

between the inner and outer boundaries. The result? A highly rarefied asteroid belt. We should note that many spacecraft, including the Voyagers, the Pioneers, Galileo, Cassini-Huygens ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets ... between the newly formed sun and swirling outer ...

The study also revealed how rare the impact of an asteroid from the outer ... planet. It will pass just 19,635 miles (31,600 kilometers) from Earth’s surface, just a tenth of the distance ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt ... would that affect the inner planets, so Venus ...

Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto ... than any of the planets in the outer solar system.

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...