Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...