Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt ... the solar system. A visible-light image from the Hubble Space ...

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

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

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected ... be an asteroid from beyond the solar system's "snow line" that migrated to the ...

activity duration and distribution within the asteroid belt, for example — so that they can be better used to trace ice in the solar system in general." Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

NASA/JPL-Caltech Oct 5: NASA Psyche mission In the asteroid belt between ... Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Noam Galai/Getty Images Oct. 14: Annular solar eclipse Some of the ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space ... Images like that have captured imaginations during this surprisingly active solar cycle, and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar system ... asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter using the James Webb ...