You searched for all/asteroid belt | Popular Science

101 Results From "all/asteroid belt"

a man with a mustache and curly hair poses with a lot of breakfast cereal

Asteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

By Laura Baisas

a full moon rises over a snowy mountain

January stargazing: A supermoon, asteroid, and one very large planet

Lunar surface seen from above

Rare lunar meteorite was smacked three times before finally hitting Earth

Solar system, computer artwork.

In what order did the planets in our solar system form?

By Christopher Palma & Lucas Brefka, The Conversation

Brachiosaurus dinosaur in water next to islands with palm trees. This is a 3d render illustration; Shutterstock ID 2218581533; purchase_order: PopSci; job: ; client: ; other:

What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur‑killing asteroid armageddon

By Michael J. Benton, Monica Grady / The Conversation

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust.

An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years

By Laura Baisas

Still from Armageddon (1998).

What Hollywood gets wrong—and surprisingly right—about saving the world from killer asteroids

By Robin Andrews

NASA asteroid concept

How often do asteroids come near Earth?

By Briley Lewis

Artwork of cubesats in the sky.

CubeSats, the tiniest of satellites, are changing the way we explore the solar system

By Mustafa Aksoy / The Conversation

Mars might have an asteroid problem

By Briley Lewis

a small asteroid orbits around a larger one

‘Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old

By Laura Baisas

A gray asteroid against the black background of our solar system.

Why the heck is Earth wet?

Fomalhaut, a star system 25-light-years away, showing a dust cloud and rocky belts.

Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet

By Briley Lewis

A dark world at the edge of our solar system.

Why a mysterious ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto

By Briley Lewis

Red-capped Hall effect thrusters being attached to a spacecraft body by two engineers.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will blaze an unusual blue trail across the solar system

By Briley Lewis

products on a page that says best of what's new 2025

Best of What's New

The 50 greatest innovations of 2025

By Popular Science Team

a variety of products on a banner reading 'best of what's new 2024'

Best of What's New

The 50 greatest innovations of 2024

By Popular Science Team

Our galaxy, the Milky Way.

How might life migrate through the universe?

By Roberto Battiston/MIT Press Reader

Researcher Andrea Spolaor holds an ice core recovered in Svalbard, Norway in April 2023.

The race to save glacial ice records before they melt away

By Nicola Jones / Yale Environment 360

DART spacecraft impact on Dimorphos asteroid in a computer model with yellow, gray, and black

5 ways we know DART crushed that asteroid (but not literally)

1 2 3 4 5 6

Latest

Happy black man with plaster on arm for flu vaccine, illness prevention and virus protection at medical clinic. Senior patient smiling in hospital after injection for immunity, healthcare and safety

Flu season is near – here’s a guide to available vaccines

By Annette Regan / The Conversation

Artwork depicting mosasaur launching out of the water with prey in its mouth while birds scatter around it

20,000-pound mosasaurs ambushed prey with sneak attacks

A picture of someone recording their friends performance on a smartphone with the new Sony ECM-AX10 spatial USB-C microphone attached

Sony’s new USB-C spatial mic captures the world around you without capturing you in wires

Astronaut Reid Wiseman looks out Orion space capsule at the moon during Artemis II Mmission

NASA shares Artemis II astronauts’ handwritten mission notes