Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar system’s primordial past. This discovery involves a dense concentration of ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

Astronomers have discovered a new, previously unnoticed concentration of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, dubbed the 'inner ...

An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object. Our solar system's four largest planets appear as bright dots, but inner planets are too close to the Sun to be seen. Credit: NASA, ESA, ...