19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec.

what astronomers know about how our solar system has evolved. There is no shortage of mysteries surrounding these objects. Still, the announcement of seven more examples and the identification of two ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have unveiled the existence of a “cosmic highway”—a pathway of interstellar ...

Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. "We identified two large asteroids that show similar spectral features to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from ...

The study is published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. To find evidence for comets outside our solar system (called "exocomets"), astronomers turned to two facilities that detect ...