Astronomers announce largest collection of comets found outside our solar system
For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...
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An Earth-like planet could be hiding at the edge of our solar system
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
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Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt articles from across Nature Portfolio
Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...
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Like our Kuiper Belt: ALMA finds 74 belts of exocomets around other stars
Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is. A research team has used several telescopes to take images ...
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New Glenn Makes It Into Orbit on First Flight, but Reusable Stage Crashes Out
Like SpaceX with Starlink, Blue Origin has the potential to fill spare capacity on its New Glenn rockets with Amazon Project Kuiper satellites. Doing so from the get go could make early launches ...