Indeed, our own solar system's asteroid belt is considered to be a "failed planet" of sorts; there are multiple small spherical bodies that make up the asteroid belt, including Ceres, Vesta, and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dust grains that are older than our own solar system have been found on an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth.. Scientists say particles from the space rock Ryugu, which were collected by a ...

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 ...

Thought to have formed in the outer solar system beyond Jupiter before our world itself coalesced, they only reached the inner solar system’s asteroid belt after being hurled there en masse by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a monster asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar System—beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Around one to two billion years ago, this mega ...