Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the Earth may have once had a system of Saturn-like ... followed by a close ...

Webb looks for Fomalhaut's asteroid belt and finds much more Date: May 8, 2023 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image 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 ...

Our asteroid belt is home to more than a million space rocks, varying in size from a dwarf planet to dust particles, which float between Jupiter and Mars. Astronomers have just discovered another ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.

Related: What is the Kuiper Belt? Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky.With its Hyper ...

The 23-degree tilt of the Earth’s axis would have caused the ring to present its surface to the sun, casting a shadow in the atmosphere and on the ground below and causing global temperatures to ...

There may be a new population of Kuiper Belt objects at 70-90 au. “If this is confirmed, it would be a major discovery. The primordial solar nebula was much larger than previously thought, and this ...

A computer simulation shows how a large-enough asteroid could have been captured by Mars and torn to shreds by the planet’s gravity, briefly forming a debris cloud — and possibly a ring system ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in ...

If Earth captured a passing asteroid around 466 million years ago, it could have ripped it to shreds and formed a ring. This debris would then rain down on the planet, focused on the equator, over ...