On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...
Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...
Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...
Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...
Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...
Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.
Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...
Far beyond Neptune, at the cold edge of our solar system, millions of icy objects drift quietly in a region called the Kuiper ...
Spread the loveThe Kuiper Belt, a vast region of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, is home to a myriad of fascinating celestial bodies. Among these, researchers have recently discovered a ...