Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the ...

A team has now pushed the discovery limit to smaller sizes, delivering the smallest asteroids known in the main belt. Among the asteroids that get close to our planet, the decameter class (those ...

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led ...

Illustration of the main asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and JupiterNASA NASA's powerful James Webb Space ...

To describe the situation more simply: Reduce the Sun to the size of a softball. On this scale, the main belt would be a disk with an inner boundary 76 feet (23 meters) from the softball-sized Sun ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading ... idea of what their broader properties are — such as their sizes, activity duration and distribution within the asteroid belt, ...

"Statistics of these very small main belt asteroids are critical for modelling ... and innovative technique to determine an asteroid's size from simple infrared detections without knowing the ...

The space rocks range from the size of a bus to several stadiums wide, and are the smallest asteroids within the main belt that have been detected to date. The researchers envision that the ...

The space rocks range from the size of a bus to several stadiums wide, and are the smallest asteroids within the main belt that have been detected to date. The researchers envision that the ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a ...