Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is more structured than long believed ...

Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...

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The boundary of a solar system is not defined by planets, but by gravity. Beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt lies the Oort ...

Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

Pluto's icy mountains have caught the fancy of star gazers and cosmos geeks. But a question soon arose: "Is this made by AI?" ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

The interstellar visitor traces back to the Milky Way's violent heart. Discover the secrets of its 130,000mph galactic ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

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