There are also many in a region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also contains small objects called comets. Comets are similar to asteroids, but are made of ice, dust and ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...

However, most hypotheses agree on the type of orbit the planets ... matching simulations had the planet-like object swooping through the inner solar system, the researchers created an additional ...