Asteroids Could Be Fractured by Sunlight

It's not often that astronomers find asteroids made out of a single massive piece, but rather containing two or more objects loosely bound together or orbiting each other, tumbling through the immensity of space. The cause to this particularity remained a subject of debate for a long tim... [ read more >> ]

Most of the asteroids in the solar system are contained in an area of space between Mars and Jupiter, known as the asteroid belt

Image comment: Most of the asteroids in the solar system are contained in an area of space between Mars and Jupiter, known as the asteroid belt
Image credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Most of the asteroids in the solar system are contained in an area of space between Mars and Jupiter, known as the asteroid belt