The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

These so-called Kirkwood gaps are not obvious since they show up only in plots ... with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Where do meteorites of different type come ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt ... Hubble images show two KBOs located about 4,700 ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA ... paralleled by the study of populations in the Main Belt and outer solar system. In the coming years, missions to interstellar ...

The solar system contains hundreds of dwarf planets, including Ceres, which can be found in the asteroid belt. Asteroids are made of metals and rocky material. There are many asteroids in our ...