Discovered on Apr. 5, 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... The brightest comet to cross our planet's skies since Hale-Bopp in 1997, the "comet of the century ...

The continent is literally splitting in two, a process known as rifting, which creates a long collapse basin: the East African Rift system ... observing the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997, in the ...

Final preparations are under way for China to launch an uncrewed craft to visit both an asteroid and a comet, in the hope of learning more about the space rocks in our solar system. The Tianwen-2 ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A ...

But what about life elsewhere in our own backyard – what about life in our own solar system besides Earth? We may well soon know a lot more about this because a spacecraft is speeding towards ...

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

TNOs are bodies in the solar system that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, which is 30 times more distant from the Sun than the Earth. A preprint describing the discovery is hosted on the preprint ...

There are other icy moons in the Solar System with geysers, such as Triton around Neptune, but there are no plans to go back to the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, just yet – although many want one.

DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). This means that it orbits the Sun ...

You can get in touch with Alyce by emailing a.collins@newsweek.com A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

Thanks in part to the world's largest digital camera, a new observatory should soon discover several million previously unknown objects in the solar system, including the majority of asteroids ...