"Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long appeared to be very small in comparison with many other planetary systems," Fraser noted ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The authors suggest that Pluto and Charon, located in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, collided without annihilating one another before being influenced by one another’s ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...

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

Scientists are exploring the possibility of a hidden ninth planet in our solar system. The planet, dubbed Planet Nine, is believed to exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Researchers have ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

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 between ...