Search Results for: Kuiper belt

When the “new planet” Eris was presented to the world on July 29, 2005, it did not yet have an…

An exoplanet with a mass 11 times that of Jupiter – HD 106906 b – is located 336 light-years from…

Humankind is eager to become an interplanetary species, but we must explore the solar system’s every corner to become one.…

The Oort Cloud can be described as a celestial layer of uncountable icy and sharp objects. Moreover, its extended shell…

Pluto is considered as the largest dwarf planet in our solar system. Moreover, it’s one of the members of the…

There a spacecraft so far away in space it has become the first humanmade object to reach interstellar space. It…

Black Hole the Size of Grapefruit Could Lurk in the Outermost Limits of our Solar System Scientists say there could…

Astronomers have identified a nearby planetary system that is likely to harbor life as we know it. The star system…

Astronomers have recently released what is considered the largest collection of sharp, detailed photographs of debris disks surrounding young stars.…

Until now, and mostly due to its location so far from the Sun, scientists thought that the origin of the…

For the first time in the history of space exploration, a spacecraft has sent pack images of a distant sky…

At least 19 asteroids orbited another, distant alien star before joining our solar system drifting between Jupiter and Neptune. According…

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone…

The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, successfully completed a flyby of “Ultima Thule”, an object in the Kuiper belt of bodies beyond Neptune on…

According to scientists, Saturn, one of the most beautiful planets in our solar system did not always have its iconic…