The main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, is where most asteroids orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The asteroid belt, with its many small rocky bodies, looks in some ways like the whole inner solar system might have looked roughly 10 to 100 million years after the Sun was born. So why doesn ...

In the asteroid belt, the dodo isn’t extinct, Elvis isn’t dead, and James Bond is real. Mother Teresa is there, too, along with Jesse Owens, Beethoven, a bunch of astronomers’ kids and the ...

Blame the dinosaurs' extinction on a massive traffic accident in the asteroid belt. That's the conclusion of a a joint Czech-American research team, which suggests in a new paper that the asteroid ...

Scientists have determined the likely origin of the dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought about their extinction and killed three quarters of all life here on Earth. This asteroid is officially ...

Other images were taken through special infrared an A new video from a NASA spacecraft ... wide the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — since last July.

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has today unveiled plans to build a spacecraft to go explore the main Asteroid belt for the first time—and land on a rare “red” asteroid. The region of ...