NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

Computer simulations in 2005 suggest that Charon could have formed as the result of a hypothetical violent collision, when a large Kuiper Belt object struck Pluto at a high speed, destroying itself ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars. Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centau ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as ‘disks’ rather than ...

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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 ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

prompted by what Irish weather expert Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather has described as a ‘conveyor belt of storms’ brewing up in the Atlantic. Those storms are as a result of a jet stream ...