Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu have not only the ingredients required to life but also show the ...

but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...

De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.

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 ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 WY70, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly ...

A new study of 2024 PT5 suggests it's no coincidence this asteroid is hanging around in our celestial neighborhood. This object appears to be a piece of the Moon, which was broken off in a ...

Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...

The Minor Planet Center swiftly announced on January 3 that they were "omitting" the misidentified asteroid from their records. The astronomical mix-up frustrated scientists, who cited growing ...