The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists find ‘record-breaking’ asteroid nearly the size of eight football fields. Is it close to Earth? - The asteroid was discovered using data from the world’s largest camera ...

There's a lot more to the asteroid belt than meets the eye—and some of the things you may have thought you knew may be ...

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Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes some of the fastest-spinning mini-planets known to science.

Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.