Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
2 Trillion Pulses Unleashed: NASA’s Space Laser Reveals Earth’s Shifting Ice
NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...
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Astronomers Image Dozens of Star Systems Wearing 'Exocomet Belts'
Our solar system has the Kuiper Belt, but we're not the only ones wearing a snazzy ring of ice shards and space rocks. Countless other star systems boast belts of their own, which astronomers ...
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Arctic sea ice hits record low maximum extent for the year
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square ...
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NASA's Hubble finds Kuiper Belt duo may be trio
There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt. The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally ...
Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound
Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...