The Kuiper belt is the torus-shaped region of the solar system containing planetesimals ... More massive than the asteroid belt by 20 to 200 times, it consists of small remnants of the solar ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. An examination ... the journey of the sample returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft ...

That led Neptune (foreground) and Uranus to disrupt a belt of comets, and Jupiter the asteroid ... the Kuiper belt. They may also peek into the Oort cloud, which Stern calls the solar system ...

and thus have the potential to provide scientists with a window into the formation of our solar system. Donaldjohanson is a medium-sized asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

the research team concluded that the space rock was rich in silicates and that this meant it "most likely" originated from the solar system's main asteroid belt. The asteroid was likely pushed ...

There are large numbers of asteroids orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. There are also many in a region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.

For a long time, it has been unclear whether Ceres formed in the asteroid belt or traveled inward from the edge of the solar system. Now, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for So ...

Now European Southern Observatory (ESO) thinks one of the objects floating along the main belt might be the smallest dwarf planet in our solar system — an asteroid known as Hygiea. Hygiea isn ...

As well as naming the planets and their relative order from the sun, other components of the solar system are considered, including the asteroid belt, the dwarf planets, and beyond to the Kuiper ...