According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

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 ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and belongs to the poorly known sub-kilometer category in the Main Belt. A previously unknown asteroid about 300-650 feet/100–200 ...