“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 ...

The first asteroid belt ever seen outside the solar system is more complex than expected ... evidence for a collision occurring in the outer ring between two protoplanetary bodies.

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 ...

This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ... thought to have been caused by the breakup of a large asteroid ...

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 ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also ... Trojan coming from the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy bodies at the edge of the solar system, but there are irregularities the team ...

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 ...

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 ...