Despite this, the slightly eccentric and tilted orbits of the Solar System’s gas giants remain an enduring mystery. New ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

Saturn's intricate structure, interactions, and diverse components make it a fascinating 'mini solar system' within the ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

These solar system objects are like icy asteroids and have orbits comparable to or larger than Neptune's orbit. Prior to the new UCF-led study, TNOs were known to be a diverse population based on ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

“By analyzing the reflectivity, and the orbits, we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets.” Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar ...