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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Jan 12, 2021New discovery may validate theories of the formation of organic compounds in extraterrestrial environments.
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Aug 10, 2020Brines may still be percolating up to the surface on Ceres today as the result of an impact that created the Occator crater 20 million years ago.
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Mar 23, 2020Astrobiology Magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Helen Matsos, sits down in conversation with Ann Druyan, writer and Executive Producer of "Cosmos: Possible. Worlds".
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Feb 5, 2020Could AI deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials? Scientists propose a curious experiment to compare how human beings and machines recognize planetary images.
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Jan 24, 2020Detection of ammonium salts may be a further indication that comet impacts may have made life on Earth possible.
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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
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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.
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Jul 16, 2019A team of international asteroid and comet experts now agree that ʻOumuamua, the first recorded interstellar visitor, has natural origins.
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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.
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Dec 27, 2018Outer solar system experts find 'far out there' dwarf planet.