When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

Two asteroids, 2025 OB5 and 2025 QK3, as well as the smaller 2025 QB3, are all set to pass Earth on August 26.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky.

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the ...

For a comet in the main asteroid belt to display them would mean these volatiles are present, and that's exactly what Webb was able to find on Read: water vapor.

The data from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu revealed that they could be from the Polana asteroid family, along with ...

This artist’s concept of Comet 238P/Read shows the main belt comet sublimating—its water ice vaporizing as its orbit approaches the Sun Photo: NASA, ESA ...

Overall, the main asteroid belt contains a surprising diversity of objects ranging from primitive ice/rock mixtures to igneous rocks.

They’re red, they’re reasonably big, and they have no business being in the main asteroid belt, but their discovery confirms the complex conditions in place when the solar system was still ...

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 ...

What are the top five biggest asteroids and do they pose a threat to Earth? Most of the 1,113,527 asteroids orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.