Most of them are concentrated within the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. However, some may end up circulating into the inner solar system.

A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass near Earth at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers on March 5, 2025. Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate ...

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“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. While its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%, they have now dropped to near ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid ... spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars.

Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as the NASA ...

First discovered on March 2, 1981 by the American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory, it orbits within the inner regions of the main asteroid belt. NASA’s Lucy ... position ...

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Asteroids are left over remnants from the formation of the solar system, mostly rock, but also metallic, or icy bodies that tend to live in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Space ...

But fear not: NASA announced on Monday that it posed a threat no longer — the odds that the asteroid would smash into our planet have dropped to nearly zero. “I knew this was likely to go away ...