The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Asteroid belts of just the right size are friendly to life Date: November 1, 2012 Source: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Summary: Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if ...

The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, makes up 0.05 percent the mass of Earth. The asteroids there can range greatly in mass, with the four largest ones — Ceres ...

The asteroid belt, a ring of rubble between Mars and Jupiter, has sometimes been written off as discarded leftovers from the solar system's start. But new research published in the journal Nature ...

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected, astronomers found, using observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. Looking at the warm dust around a ...

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 ...

Asteroid belts similar to the one between Mars and Jupiter appear to be rare beyond our solar system, implying that complex alien life may be rare as well, a new study reports.

The asteroid belt, hanging out between Mars and Jupiter, is not like the cluttered debris field in “The Empire Strikes Back.” It may contain millions of rocky and metal objects, but the ...

Our asteroid belt is home to more than a million space rocks, varying in size from a dwarf planet to dust particles, which float between Jupiter and Mars.

The asteroid belt in our solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter, is a region of millions of space rocks that sits near the “snow line,” which marks the border of a cold region where ...