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The Mystery of Arrokoth: What NASA Didn’t See Coming
NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...
Space.com18d
Trillions of comets discovered orbiting alien planet systems (image)
The discovery of what are being termed 'planetesimal ... In our own solar system, the Kuiper Belt is a region of icy bodies, some of which fly through the inner solar system as comets, which ...
Daily Wrap on MSN13d
Mysterious chorus waves discovered far beyond Earth's orbit
These short electromagnetic pulses resemble bird songs; however, they pose a significant threat to the functioning of ...
Space.com20d
Charon: Pluto's dwarf planet partner
Christy's discovery was important because the existence ... Then, a subsequent impact between Charon and a smaller Kuiper Belt object could have produced the debris that formed the system's ...
Once-in-a-lifetime comet will become visible for the first time in 160,000 YEARS today - here's the best time to see the bright space rock
A once-in-a-lifetime comet is set to become visible for the first time in 160,000 years - and you don't want to miss it.
Business Today27d
‘NASA breakthrough’: Planet X might be real, and it’s bigger than we imagined
Anomalous orbits of Kuiper Belt objects, studied since 2016 by Caltech ... over time—a painstaking and precise endeavor. A discovery would captivate the world, joining ranks with Mars missions ...
Astronomy9d
February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
The Debrief20d
Close Encounter with a Giant Interstellar Object May Have Altered Our Solar System, Astronomers Say
Additionally, a key discovery arising from the team’s simulations is that ... should be taken into account when studying the formation and evolution of the Kuiper belt, trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), ...
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Like our Kuiper Belt: ALMA finds 74 belts of exocomets around other stars
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 ...
Nature12d
Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt articles from across Nature Portfolio
Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...
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Amazon Project Kuiper: Everything you need to know about Amazon’s satellite internet service
Named after the icy Kuiper Belt extending from Neptune's orbit, the Project Kuiper constellation will work similarly to Starlink once all of the satellites arrive in low earth orbit. Although it ...
Advanced Television7d
Ofcom licenses Kuiper, boosts connectivity
UK comms regulator Ofcom has granted an earth station network licence to Amazon Kuiper Services Europe SARL for its ‘Kuiper’ non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite system. This decision means Kuiper ...