For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

A research team has used several telescopes to take images of 74 different belts of ... roughly correspond to the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system, but differ from each other in shape ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched ... providing unprecedented images and data about the celestial object ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique ... Mean Radius and Shape of Pluto and Charon from New Horizons Images', Icarus, Vol 287, pages 12–29 (2017) https ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

"The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our Solar System's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger ...

February 8th has witnessed a multitude of significant events throughout history, spanning various categories such as science, ...

"The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger ...