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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to observations of space using NASA's New Horizons probe, a population of objects in the outer regions of the Solar ..

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