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

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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 ...

Researchers have observed the first object of its kind - a carbon-rich asteroid in the Kuiper Belt ... the giant planets, during the turbulent early history of the Solar System.

My research focuses on terrestrial planets and moons ... Moon, and the Asteroid Belt) and in dramatic fashion, they reveal ongoing activity on moons of the outer Solar System (Europa, Enceladus, and ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system ... asteroid belt. This SPHERE instrument was developed to study ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

The hot, rocky material near the centre of the solar system was sculpted into terrestrial planets with metal cores ... the Sun in an area between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt. They can ...

The solar system contains hundreds of dwarf planets, including Ceres, which can be found in the asteroid belt. Asteroids are made of metals and rocky material. There are many asteroids in our ...