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Where is the asteroid belt located?

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Illustration showing the eight planets of the solar system in order from the Sun-Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune-depicted to scale by size, with labeled diameters in miles and kilometers. The Sun is partially visible on the left for comparison. — Solar system The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.

The asteroid belt is a region of interplanetary space located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.12

Most asteroids within this region occupy the main belt, where they follow orbits with mean distances from the Sun ranging between approximately 2.06 and 3.28 astronomical units (AU). The distribution of these objects is not uniform; it is shaped by Kirkwood gaps, which are areas where gravitational resonances with Jupiter have depleted the asteroid population.3