First, we know that myriad small bodies orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. These objects are the asteroids that comprise the main belt. Astronomers estimate that 1.1 million to 1.9 million ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body ... NASA solves the mystery of what happened to Mars’ water He pointed out that NASA’s Dawn mission ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When you purchase ...

Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever ...

a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. "We have been able to detect near-Earth asteroids down ...

Deimos is an irregular, lumpy and small moon, only 7 to 9 miles in diameter, appearing more like the asteroids of the belt between Mars and Jupiter than any of the Jovian moons or the Moon of Earth.

The event between Mars and Jupiter will not happen again for another couple of years. The two planets will appear the closest on Wednesday, and the best time to view the pair is a few hours before ...

Here's what to know about the upcoming conjunction between Jupiter and Mars, and how you can see it for yourself. While Jupiter and Mars have been near each other in the east before sunup all ...

Is there evidence of a planet ever existing between Mars and Jupiter? Mark Smithtown, New York This splendid question gives us an opportunity to distinguish between what we know and what we ...