A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects ...

There are also many in a region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also contains small objects called comets. Comets are similar to asteroids, but are made of ice, dust and ...

The presence of these distant objects could offer new insights into how planets and small bodies formed and migrated in the ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

"Whether this impact was from a micrometeoroid or a piece of space debris, the collision highlights the need for responsible ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our ... there are millions of asteroids – rocky objects that orbit the Sun and vary in size from 1km to around 1000km. Like planets, asteroids are mostly ...

Asteroids may not be the sexiest objects in the solar system ... and craters down to some 10 km in size, says ESO. What surprises Marsset most about these small bodies? The incredible diversity ...