Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A very old comet, just discovered in 2023, will be making an appearance in the night sky for the next couple of weeks. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS*, will be ...

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At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, is a major step forward in filling in gaps ...

The countdown begins for skygazers, as the much anticipated Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas will disappear from our night sky by early November, according to NASA. Discovered only in 2023, the comet ...

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...