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 ...

Currently there is a third “interstellar interloper” now passing through the solar system designated as 3i/ATLAS, for the ...

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3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

Astronomers have discovered a new, previously unnoticed concentration of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, dubbed the 'inner ...

Astronomers discovered a primordial cluster beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. Stable, ancient icy bodies may reveal ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX was able to launch two dozen of Amazon’s Kuiper satellites after multiple delays due to weather. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket left Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The United Launch Alliance launched its Atlas V rocket as it carried Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites from Space Launch Complex-31 on Monday night. The Atlas V ...

Researchers say the finding may also shed light on how giant planets gradually shifted to their current orbits and what interstellar conditions the solar system faced during its birth.

Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet ...