"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

A new celestial object has been uncovered on the edge of our solar system, revealing another piece of the vast puzzle that is our cosmic neighborhood. Discovered using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna ...

Date 1999 C1999 Type Congresses Physical description xiv, 616 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Place Solar system Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic Asteroids Few-body problem Astrophysics siris_sil_560647 SIL ...

“Small solar system bodies may also end up in a hyperbolic orbit after a close encounter with the Sun or a giant planet. Comet C/1980 E1 reached its present-day path after a close encounter with ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Comets are also considered small solar system bodies. Then there are "minor planets," which include the dwarf planets and all of the small solar system bodies that aren't comets.

Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen ...