For centuries, humanity has gazed at the stars, unraveling the mysteries of celestial motion. But what if the unusual orbits ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since the formation of the solar system. Planetary migrations have been the most prominent ...

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 ...