But the asteroid belt itself is still an enigma ... Here I'm gonna make a model of the solar system. This rock is my sun, and I'm gonna place it right there, and an inch away, I'm gonna place ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three grains ...

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system ... known as the Main Asteroid Belt, Bennu lies along an orbital plane ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn." Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, eventually settling into an orbit between Earth and Mars. The team analyzed ...

shoving them out of the Saturn Trojan state and back into the background population of small bodies in the solar system." A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also shown ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, eventually settling into an orbit between Earth and Mars. The team analyzed ...