Where is the asteroid belt located?

• A. Beyond Neptune.
• B. Between Mars and Jupiter.
• C. Between Earth and Mars.
• D. Between Jupiter and Saturn.

Answer: (B)

The asteroid belt sits between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This region contains many rocky bodies that never combined into a planet because Jupiter’s strong gravity stirred the material during the early solar system, preventing sustained growth. The belt lies roughly a few astronomical units from the Sun, serving as a divider between the inner rocky planets and the outer gas giants. Regions beyond Neptune form the Kuiper belt and other distant areas, while the spaces inside Mars’s orbit or between Jupiter and Saturn are not where this dense ring of asteroids is found.