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The asteroid belt is slowly vanishing, shedding dust and rocks

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a ...
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Solar system’s asteroid belt slowly disappearing, houses over 1.9 million large rocks

Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an ...

The Asteroid Belt Is Vanishing

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our ...

Asteroid belt in our Solar System is fading, scientists uncover startling mass loss

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...
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UMD students name asteroid ‘Diamondback’ after completing research for astronomy class

Students published their scientific findings about the physical properties of an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, which ...
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Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter vanishing, study finds

A recent study found that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually shedding mass over time. This region was ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Solar System’s Secret History

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able to see another one! Today we know of more than a million asteroids in the ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock.The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...