Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant asteroid belt circling the bright star Vega, a find that may ultimately reveal an entire solar system of planets, scientists say. Vega is one of the brightest ...

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In trying to understand why Ceres’ misty exosphere contains ammonia, simulations find that the dwarf planet formed past Saturn and moved ... at the bottom of the craters on Ceres. But asteroid belt ...

New high-resolution images of the Fomalhaut debris disk system from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed the discovery of a new asteroid belt in ... pull of unseen planets hidden in ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Asteroid Belt," Jay Tate, director of the Spaceguard Center observatory in the U.K ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres ...

similar to the asteroid belt which separates the inner and outer planets of our solar system. As in our solar system, wide gaps between these debris belts suggest their distinct orbits are maintained ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged ... A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also shown, with ...