Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

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

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

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