Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own.

The solar system was literally turning itself ... and Jupiter the asteroid belt. According to the Nice model (named for the French town where it was conceived), Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers ...

However, subsequent studies have challenged this clustering, and the Planet Nine model was not ... our theories about the solar system’s formation.” The Kuiper Belt continues to challenge ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Combination image using the MIRI image from this paper, the HST image ...