the asteroid belt is home to millions of objects, some of which harbor hidden knowledge, trapped in a cosmic time capsule since the birth of the solar system. 238P/READ, ONE OF THE WEIRDEST ...

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected, astronomers found, using observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. Looking at the warm dust around a ...

Vesta had been thought to have been the last protoplanet, a leftover remnant from the early days of our solar system that never quite made it as a fully fledged planet for some reason. As the ...

Indeed, our own solar system's asteroid belt is considered to be a "failed planet" of sorts; there are multiple small spherical bodies that make up the asteroid belt, including Ceres, Vesta ...

Researchers were using the advanced telescope to try and examine Fomalhaut, a nearby young star that is encircled by its own asteroid ... belt is double the distance of our own solar system ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, eventually settling into an orbit between Earth and Mars. The team analyzed ...

It’s not yet clear how material from the outer solar system found its way to Ryugu. Perhaps the asteroid formed farther from the sun — and hence, closer to the Kuiper belt — than it is today.

An asteroid belt orbits a star in this artist's rendering ... led researchers to believe they were witnessing the aftermath of a large collision. The Beta Pictoris solar system is young, the ...

this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day call “Bennu.” Eventually ...