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 ...

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 call “Bennu.” Eventually ...

Dwarf planet Ceres may have formed in the asteroid belt rather than migrating there from the outer Solar System. This possibility is supported by bright, ammonium-rich deposits found in Consus Crater, ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar ... system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

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 ...