The James Webb Telescope eyes a new asteroid belt — in another star's solar system The new space telescope is so powerful that it can spot not merely exoplanets, but distant asteroid belts as well ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which embarked on a mission to unravel the mysteries of our solar system’s asteroid belt, has made a groundbreaking discovery. It has revealed the presence of two ...

There are three nested belts that stretch out 14 billion miles from their star, meaning that the outermost belt is double the distance of our own solar system’s Kuiper belt.

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 ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction ...

A large part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter may have been formed on the fringes of the Solar System. A new study, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that a group of ...

Analysis: Dust grains that are older than our own solar system have been found on an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth. The sample were collected by a Japanese spacecraft in 2018 and 2019 and ...

Nasa’s James Webb telescope looks at asteroid belt outside our solar system – and finds surprise Fomalhaut asteroid belt is far more complex than researchers had realised ...