The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

There's still one such ring around the Sun – it's called the asteroid belt and lies between Mars and Jupiter, with the Sun's gravity holding the rocks in orbit. The solar system that includes ...

the asteroid appears to have been nudged our way by Jupiter out of the solar system's main asteroid belt, a ring of rocky objects surrounding the Sun that stretches between the orbits of Mars and ...

As noted, exozodi is a large ring of dust orbiting within a ... that is approximately 7.5 times the mass of the asteroid belt in our solar system. Despite not directly naming exoplanetary systems ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

Did you know Jupiter had rings? They're not as prominent ... For example, the telescope recently detected an alien asteroid belt. It's in the Fomalhaut system about 25 light-years away.

Soon it was dark enough to see the zodiacal light—sunlight reflected off interplanetary dust grains ranging out past the asteroid belt—stabbing ... of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, along ...