Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed through ...

By the 2010s, however, exoplanet discoveries were so frequent as to become quotidian; now, there are over 9,000 likely or confirmed exoplanets, according to NASA. Because of a selection bias that ...

Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an estimated 1.9 million asteroids that are larger than 1 kilometer in diameter ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for longform science fiction which feels rooted in reality, it’s hard to find a better example than The Expanse. The novel series was written by James S. A. Corey, a pseudonym for ...

In an article published in the journal Icarus, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and collaborators report the findings of a study reconstituting the formation of the dwarf planet Ceres ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled an audacious plan to send a spacecraft on an epic journey through the solar system's main asteroid belt, according to a report by AP. Following the ...