For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

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 ...

Now, research has uncovered a warm ocean hiding out there in our solar system. It's the most unlikely of places, too.

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as 'disks' rather ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and ...

With hundreds of solar farm developments on the way swathes of Yorkshire countryside are set for a radical change. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to ...

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as ‘disks ...

With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th-largest natural satellite in the solar system. It is calculated ... when a large Kuiper Belt ...