A better understanding of the asteroid belt has revealed just how dynamic the solar system was in its early days, a new study reports. Over the past decade, astronomers have come to realize that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The most famous one is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Photo Credit: NASA Asteroids vary in size and can provide clues about the early solar system.

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 ...