It's a Small Solar System After AllTo be fair, planetary scientists have been working hard to explore the small bodies of the solar system at least since Halley’s Comet passed close to the Sun three ...

It is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. Researchers using the Subaru Telescope, located in Hawaii, spotted a small, distant object called 2023 KQ14 ...

The small bodies in the solar system include comets, asteroids, the objects in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud, small planetary satellites, Triton, Pluto, Charon, and interplanetary dust.

The goal of this effort is to develop a mission architecture that allows the systematic and affordable in-situ exploration of small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, and Martian moons.

Citizen scientists have given new names to 17 minor planets — small objects including asteroids — in Earth's solar system, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Scientists have thought that our solar system's inner rocky planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars —formed first (around 4.566 billion years ago), while gas giants and icy bodies in the ...