This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun. Its formation ...

For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar system. Now, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for So ...

Now European Southern Observatory (ESO) thinks one of the objects floating along the main belt might be the smallest dwarf planet in our solar system — an asteroid known as Hygiea. Hygiea isn ...

the research team concluded that the space rock was rich in silicates and that this meant it "most likely" originated from the solar system's main asteroid belt. The asteroid was likely pushed ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.