203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia are thought to have moved into the belt from beyond Neptune at the start of the solar system
A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet — which could make it the smallest in the solar system — after new research revealed it’s shape, astronomers said on Monday.
The naked metallic core of a dead, early planet should soon get a visitor. Orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, the bizarre space rock is the target of a NASA mission that just entered its final design phase this week.
The era of renewed space exploration has led to some rather ambitious proposals.
As the single-largest body in the Asteroid Belt, Ceres has long been a source of fascination to astronomers.
The aptly named asteroid belt is a region of space between Mars and Jupiter that’s home to the majority of the asteroids in the solar system.
