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 ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...

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.