A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to our planet than the distance to the moon this Saturday. While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this ...

It is rare for such a huge asteroid - estimated to be between 40 and 90m in diameter - to come so close to the planet. Astronomers described it as a once-in-a decade event. According to Nasa ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...