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

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar system ... asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

An asteroid the ... In fact, the solar system is littered with asteroids — debris left over from the formation of the solar system. The largest number are in a belt between the orbits of Mars ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

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Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...