Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked between Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt, a region that, for decades, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Our asteroid belt is home to more than a million space rocks ...

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of ... the 343 largest bodies in the asteroid belt. “It’s amazing to me that ...

An asteroid named 2022 AP7 is reportedly ... astronomers are of the opinion that the belt was either created by material that never became a planet or is made up of remnants of a planet that ...

The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant of a forming planet rather than a minor planet. Scientists long ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Dinky and the other asteroids we're flying by, we're laying the groundwork for understanding how planets are made." Dinkinesh is situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...