NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

Solar Wave Squeezed ... types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper ... if the belt is ...

extending out to large radii from their central star. "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 ...

our star. As well as naming the planets and their relative order from the sun, other components of the solar system are considered, including the asteroid belt, the dwarf planets, and beyond to ...

That led Neptune (foreground) and Uranus to disrupt a belt of comets ... reaching halfway to the next star. A lot of comets were also hurled into the inner solar system, where they crashed ...

Since astronomers started discovering extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," in the mid-1990s, worlds orbiting other stars have demonstrated that, compared to our somewhat mundane solar system ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Its host star is surrounded by icy debris left over from planet formation, similar to our solar system’s Kuiper belt, the ring of icy objects observed around the Sun. Currie and team used the ...