The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

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 second-largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid.

The main belt asteroid ... show views of the asteroid Vesta, which reached opposition on May 2, and is still relatively bright in the night sky. Want to explore the solar system with your own ...

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will ...

On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past the three-mile-wide main belt asteroid (52246 ... explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system. SAN ANTONIO — April 15, 2025 ...

"Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent decrease in fuel pressure in the spacecraft’s propulsion system ... into the asteroid belt, setting ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial ... so it's rather strange that ours doesn't. "What if the asteroid belt, instead of forming the ring of smaller asteroids that it is today ...

There's still one such ring around the Sun – it's called the asteroid belt and lies between Mars and Jupiter, with the Sun's gravity holding the rocks in orbit. The solar system that includes ...