Outer solar system
News about outer solar system facts, outer solar system program, solar system planets, solar system planets information. Jovian Gas Giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune search for exoplanets using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and Hubble on The Kuiper Belt.
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Oct 8, 2019The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, which was the first mission to involve a spacecraft following a comet on its journey around the Sun, and placing a lander on its surface, has found clues about how magnetic fields may have helped the Solar System to -
Sep 26, 2019A citizen scientist has discovered two stars with strange dips in their light that are probably hosts to ‘exocomets’, i.e. comets that orbit stars other than our Sun. If confirmed, then these will be the first “star-grazing” exocomets to be found. -
Jul 16, 2019A team of international asteroid and comet experts now agree that ʻOumuamua, the first recorded interstellar visitor, has natural origins. -
Jan 26, 2019The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, say researchers. -
Dec 27, 2018Outer solar system experts find 'far out there' dwarf planet. -
Sep 30, 2018NASA's New Horizons science team recently wrapped up a three-day rehearsal of the busiest days around the mission's Dec. 31- Jan. 1 flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object orbiting a billion miles beyond Pluto. -
Aug 29, 2018NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter. -
Apr 25, 2018Even after decades of observations and a visit by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, Uranus held on to one critical secret -- the composition of its clouds. -
Feb 18, 2018What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern. -
Feb 17, 2018What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern.
