“This system was definitely one of the first ... Between Fomalhaut’s outer Kuiper-Belt-like ring and its inner asteroid-belt-like ring is a gap. “The new gap that we see hints at the ...

Similarly, inside our solar system Jupiter corrals the asteroid belt, the inner edge of the Kuiper ... Fomalhaut's dust ring was discovered in 1983 in observations made by NASA's Infrared ...

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 ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

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 ...

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 ...

But Earth itself would have been a lot gaudier—decorated with a ring system similar ... escaped intact from the asteroid belt and wandered toward the inner solar system. Ultimately, it flew ...

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 ...