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

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...

Six planets are still aligned in London skies tonight (Sunday, January 26) and will remain so until about mid-February. So if you missed them at their peak last night, there is plenty of time to see ...

Cassini imaged the main-belt ... solar system might be similar to asteroids or comets; the definitions begin to be unclear. Asteroid-like objects between Saturn and Uranus are called Centaurs. Objects ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...