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 ...

A nearby planetary system is seen in detail in our first look at an asteroid belt outside our solar system in infrared light ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had ... instead of an asteroid belt. "What if the asteroid belt, instead of forming the ring of smaller asteroids that it is today, what if it ...

This non-random pattern supports the idea of a ring system directing debris. This discovery suggests that celestial events, like asteroid impacts and ring systems, may have had a broader influence ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt ... be an asteroid from beyond the solar system's "snow line" that migrated to the asteroid belt. The snow line is the minimum distance ...

Finding this organic material on Benu means that the building blocks of life could have come from an asteroid, and in our early solar system ... in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon, Europa ...

It seeks to offer a better understanding of the formation of our solar system, explore the water-rich origins of these bodies as a usable resource, and assess the presence of organic and volatile ...