The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

A new scientific study has revealed that the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter is slowly disappearing. Researchers say the belt, which contains millions of rocky bodies, has been steadily ...

What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two asteroid belts in our Solar System? The short answer is you might be asking for ...

Beyond Earth, there are abundant resources on the Moon and, more significantly, on asteroids. The asteroid belt between Mars ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

The space rock is expected to make its closest approach at around 848,000 miles from the Earth, according to NASA.

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have identified 19 super- and ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...