The asteroid belt, a ring of rubble between Mars and Jupiter, has sometimes been written off as discarded leftovers from the solar system's start. But new research published in the journal Nature ...

The main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, contains millions of these objects. While scientists believed that they shared a common origin or similar composition, new studies are ...

The asteroid belt is the ring-shaped disc consisting of irregular small bodies called asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter. I have studied the origins of the asteroid belt in the the solar ...

The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. Despite popular imagery ...

The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, makes up 0.05 percent the mass of Earth. The asteroids there can range greatly in mass, with the four largest ones — Ceres ...

Research suggests that gravitational interactions forced Mars out of the asteroid belt and toward the sun about 120 million years after the birth of the solar system.

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

Jupiter’s movement through the belt would brought with it lots of stragglers from outside the asteroid belt, first comets from beyond the belt as Jupiter moved inwards towards Mars, and then the ...

However, this model does not take into account the existence, within the solar system, of planetary material beyond Mars, where the asteroid belt (between 2 and 4 AU) and the four giant planets ...

Earth and Mars are very different planets right now, but they're both small, rocky planets in the inner solar system. However, a new study suggests Mars may also have different origins than Earth.

A group of scientists has discovered two unusually red objects in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and they may have originated from farther in the solar system. These objects ...