New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...
New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...
Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.
Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...
THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...
TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost planet, was recently observed in depth by JWST in the mid-infrared, a type of light to which our ...
Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...
Discover what the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program has learned about the outer planets, including Jupiter, ...
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy). This initiative focuses on tracking Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...