Since then, New Horizons has been blazing a trail through the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring-shaped region ... The architecture of the solar system, including the asteroid belt and the Kuiper ...

and it's not bad to have another ring planet in our solar system. NARRATOR: It seems Mars will one day be transformed by the asteroid belt. But the asteroid belt itself is still an enigma.

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

This could drastically shift our understanding of how our planetary system ... than the belt. Specifically, the researchers discovered a cluster of 11 objects orbiting in a ring at a heliocentric ...

This would mean our solar system is more similar to others that have a very large asteroid belt like ring further out. If our solar system is more similar to other solar systems that means those ...

How did our cosmic home—the solar system— fashion itself? This is a tale of billions of years. Put another way, begin with a ...

This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ... thought to have been caused by the breakup of a large asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, all 21 of the craters ...

which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But as we have already seen, there are plenty of places for objects to hide in the outer solar system. Some estimates suggest there ...

For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar system. Now, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for So ...

Apr. 28, 2025 — For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech As the solar system formed, many C-type asteroids came to inhabit the outskirts of the main asteroid belt, a ring containing millions of rocky objects between Mars and ...

For a long time, however, it was not entirely clear whether the dwarf planet had formed in the asteroid belt or whether it had migrated inwards from the edge of the solar system. A research team ...