45 results for "Kuiper belt"

Recent discoveries have shown that the outer Solar System is more crowded with celestial bodies than previously believed. Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New...

Posted on Sep 8, 2022 in Astronomy, Science It’s possible that there could be a massive disc and a ninth planet, said Antranik Sefilian at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics...

Posted on May 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “We’re looking into the well-preserved remnants of the ancient past,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute,...

At the fringes of our cosmic neighborhood, a fascinating discovery has emerged, hinting at a hidden structure within the Kuiper Belt. This revelation challenges our understanding of the Solar System's…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected key compounds on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, including carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide, offering fresh insights into the moon’s composition and the…

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's cutting-edge James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on Charon, Pluto's largest moon. This revelation offers new insights into the composition and formation of…

In the vast expanse of interstellar space, Voyager 1 continues its extraordinary journey, defying expectations and pushing the boundaries of human exploration. Launched on September 5, 1977, this intrepid spacecraft...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected unusual jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from Centaur 29P, one of the most active icy bodies in the outer solar…

A new study challenges the long-accepted theory that Earth's moon was formed by a massive collision with a young planet. Researchers from Penn State propose that the moon may have…

For years, astronomers have been hunting for Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet believed to be lurking at the far reaches of our solar system. Though it has never been...

Recent groundbreaking findings from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have offered new perspectives on the deep, pervasive darkness of the universe, suggesting that the number of galaxies might be significantly fewer...

Posted on Dec 30, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who...

Posted on Aug 28, 2022 in Astronomy “This research builds upon the fantastic successes of the New Horizons and Rosetta missions to expand our understanding of the origin and evolution...

Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team have revealed a strange world of massive ice volcanoes and a possible hidden ocean. The NASA astronomers have determined that multiple episodes of...

“The planet in b Centauri is an alien world in an environment that is completely different from what we experience here on Earth and in our Solar System,” explains co-author...

Posted on Dec 21, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Solar System Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Gary M. Bernstein,  Simon Portegies Zwart,  BBC and...

Posted on Jun 23, 2020 in Astronomy, Science We are only starting to grasp the the richness of Pluto’s life story: if Pluto started cold and the ice melted internally,...

Posted on Nov 14, 2022 in Astronomy, Science, Space When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the strange world of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, three decades ago, it imaged a...

Posted on May 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar...

Posted on Feb 14, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Arrokoth, an object far beyond Pluto, a haunting image reminiscent of a Stone Age carving, has remained undisturbed since it first formed...

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (image above) that collided with the planet Jupiter were observed by...

Astronomers may soon be able to confirm the existence of a primordial black hole –gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang–in our Solar System with gravitational-wave experiments that...

“The nightmare of particle physics is the dream of astronomers searching for extraterrestrials,” says astrophysicist Brian Lacki, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, who proposes that...

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space Triton orbits Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun, some 2.7 billion miles from Earth—at the cold outer fringe of...

Posted on May 17, 2019 in Astronomy, Science A dark legacy of the Nazi Era looms far beyond Pluto in the cold outermost reaches of our solar system. Earlier this...

Posted on Oct 14, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Solar System “I wouldn’t be surprised if Planet Nine has already been imaged in one of the large sky surveys currently...

Posted on Jan 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Our Sun is not one of the most abundant types of star in our Milky Way galaxy. That award goes to...

Posted on Jan 22, 2019 in Astronomy, Science It’s possible that there could be a massive disc and a ninth planet, said Antranik Sefilian at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics...

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 The water in Saturn’s rings and satellites is like that on Earth except for its bastard moon  Phoebe, “which is out of this world,” was...

Posted on Nov 6, 2018 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Cosmos, Extraterrestrial Life, Physics, Science, SETI, Solar System, Space, Universe “It is impossible to guess the purpose behind Oumuamua without more...

Posted on Nov 12, 2018 in Astronomy, NASA, Science “Understanding the causes of the differences between the Trojans will provide unique and critical knowledge of planetary origins, the source of...

Posted on Sep 10, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, NASA, Science, Space Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an...

“Using chemistry as a detective’s tool, we are able to trace certain features we see on Pluto today to formation processes from long ago. This leads to a new appreciation...

Posted on Sep 7, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, Space “It’s more dynamic and alive than Mars,” says UCF planetary scientist Philip Metzger. “The only planet that has more complex geology...

“We use our own solar system and all we know about its incredible diversity of fascinating worlds as our Rosetta Stone,” said co-author Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and...

Posted on Jun 6, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is back “awake” and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history – a New...

“It’s like observing a giant mountain of coal against the pitch-black canvas of the night sky,” says co-author Thomas Puzia from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. An international team...

Posted on May 27, 2018 in Astronomy, Discoveries, NASA, Solar System “This research builds upon the fantastic successes of the New Horizons and Rosetta missions to expand our understanding of...

Posted on Jul 21, 2017 in Uncategorized One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar System. Some scientists such...

Posted on Mar 15, 2017 in Uncategorized NASA says it could study distant exoplanets by using the sun as a giant gravity lens revealing (if it was Earth) islands, rivers,...

Posted on Jan 4, 2017 in Uncategorized “These are true missions of discovery that integrate into NASA’s larger strategy of investigating how the Solar System formed and evolved,” said Jim...

Posted on Oct 19, 2016 in Uncategorized Planet Nine–the undiscovered planet at the edge of the Solar System that was predicted by the work of Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and Mike...

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 in Uncategorized                On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (image below) collided with the...

Today’s stories include Back when SETI began, we expected intelligent extraterrestrials to make things easy for us to Oumuamua still puzzling scientists 5 years after discovery to NASA’s Webb takes...

Posted on Jun 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space When Apollo lunar samples were brought back, the NASA curators had the foresight to say, “in this moment we don’t have...