Given the name 2017 OF201, the object falls into a category called trans-Neptunian objects that orbit the sun at a distance ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

A FIELD of at least 20 asteroids has been found lurking near Venus, having previously been hidden by the Sun’s glare, experts ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

It happened 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was full of orbiting space rocks. This debris clumped up in a ...

But not many people know that the other gas giants in our Solar System – Jupiter ... directly from the asteroid belt. Instead, the scientists argue, the concentration of impacts close to the equator ...

What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt ... Archaeologists Discover 1,800-Year-Old Gold Ring With ‘Venus the Victorious’ Carving ...

A study published Wednesday in the journal Icarus makes a case that the moons did indeed start out in asteroid form ... debris cloud — and possibly a ring system — around Mars that ultimately ...

These rings are wide but very thin, making Saturn one of the most beautiful planets in our solar system. Photo Credit: NASA Jupiter, the largest planet, has many moons, with the four largest known ...

What are some interesting asteroid belts in our solar system? There are a few notable ... Vega has a Kuiper Belt-like ring of debris located about 80-120 AU from the star. Beta Pictoris has ...

But Earth itself would have been a lot gaudier—decorated with a ring system similar ... escaped intact from the asteroid belt and wandered toward the inner solar system. Ultimately, it flew ...