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

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

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 ...

Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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

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For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

Scientists suggest an interstellar visitor may have altered planetary orbits in our Solar System, reshaping trajectories of ...

A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...