Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in ... a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion ... that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is ...