As Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly crowded, we need more data on how space weather impacts their reentries, researchers ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

High-tech telescopes are revealing new clues about the solar system's outermost ... may have the data necessary to prove Pluto and other large orbiting balls deserve to be planets.

Resolving Pluto’s surface features is like trying to make out the markings on a soccer ball from 40 miles away ... Why did the solar system appear to run out of material so abruptly?

Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations that also help you learn about the solar system, and the universe. If you like space animations and comedy - then th ...

In the early 2000s, astronomers identified Haumea, Eris, Makemake, and other balls that ... of the solar system," Grundy said. "It really just depends on your focus." Pluto doesn't care if it's ...

Sometimes two large objects bounced off each other like billiard balls in a so-called ... Many models of the solar system’s formation suggest that Pluto formed much later than planets in the ...

It started with a collision — one that didn’t destroy the two balls of rock and ... shaping the features we see on Pluto’s surface today.” Including our solar system’s far-flung heart.

Pluto was once considered as the ninth planet. However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system ... the cotton balls and then ...