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 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – 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 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – 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 ...

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 a distant solar system. This provided ...

A better understanding of the asteroid belt has revealed just how dynamic the solar system was in its early days, a new study reports. "In modern dynamical models, the giant planets are thought to ...

Indeed, our own solar system's asteroid belt is considered to be a "failed planet" of sorts; there are multiple small spherical bodies that make up the asteroid belt, including Ceres, Vesta, and ...

The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, makes up 0.05 percent the mass of Earth. ... Asteroid Vesta could be a fragment of a solar system planet, ...

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet – which could make it the smallest in the solar system – after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday.

Asteroid Belt May Be Just One Big Melting Pot Of Space Rocks : ... And the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, may have swooped to near where Mars is today.