Now, using isotope samples from geological sites thought to have been bathed in this atmospheric impact, researchers suggest ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own.

Black holes are just ... an opposite electrical charge. Asteroid—A small rocky or metallic body that orbits a star. Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved ... bodies in the main asteroid belt.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Researchers have observed the first object of its kind - a carbon-rich asteroid ... solar system... where they could remain today. Seccull says that there are more objects in the Kuiper Belt ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt ... size — originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...