Currently there is a third “interstellar interloper” now passing through the solar system designated as 3i/ATLAS, for the ...

A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies well beyond the orbit of ...

Astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our Solar ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of the ...