Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

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

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...

in the main asteroid belt. However, gravitational interactions (typically with Jupiter) can sometimes send asteroids flying out of the belt, potentially bringing them into the inner solar system ...

Now, using isotope samples from geological sites thought to have been bathed in this atmospheric impact, researchers suggest ...

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ... in our Solar System. Some of these bodies include Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved ... bodies in the main asteroid belt.

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...