There are millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt (and perhaps just as many trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit), and some of them potentially contain precious metals worth more than all the money ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is ...