This artist’s concept of Comet 238P/Read shows the main belt comet sublimating—its water ice vaporizing as its orbit approaches the Sun Photo: NASA, ESA ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

The first main belt comet was discovered in 1996, but “you can always explain one weirdo,” Dr. Snodgrass said, suggesting that the belt could have captured an interloping comet. However, eight ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has ...

It took a while for our telescope technology to get good enough, but on January 1, 1801, an asteroid was discovered in this belt. It was also the largest ever discovered - about 930 kilometres across.

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 ...

The Main Asteroid Belt is dominated by four worlds—Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea—though the new mission will ultimately target one very special red asteroid called (269) Justitia. MORE FROM ...

Fomalhaut, a 440-million-year-old star, has a debris disk and two rings, akin to our asteroid and Kuiper belts. Adam Block Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The asteroid is Leona, a slowly rotating, oblong space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers hope to learn more about Betelgeuse and Leona through the eclipse, which ...