The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Earlier this month, researchers announced they found the smallest asteroids ever detected within the main belt, which is a ...

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

Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...

An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found many small asteroids. Some are heading towards Earth. These asteroids are smaller ...

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

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...