The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun unlocking secrets about mysterious objects lingering at the outer edges of ...

All must, then, be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed. They are supposed to be derived from the secondary nuclei of a soiral nebula.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Also consider that we see these solar system members because of the sunlight reflected off their surfaces, whether they are solid (moon and Mercury) or cloud covered (Venus and Saturn).

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...