The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...

Evidence from the fragments of a destroyed asteroid suggests that the shift in the positions of the giant planets in our Solar System billions of years ago happened between 60-100 million years after ...

— Companys First Planetary Mission to Rendezvous with Protoplanets Vesta and Ceres Between Mars and Jupiter — — Ion-Propelled Dawn Spacecraft to Investigate the Origins of the Solar System — Orbital ...