Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system. Deciding on a rule to designate inner and outer regions wasn’t easy, but the team classified outer planets as those that ...

However, the system is too far away to get visual confirmation of the separation of the inner bodies. Related: 8 strange ...

This video is a part of a series looking at the Outer Solar System ... by passing stars that send them plunging toward the inner solar system as comets and potential hazards to Earth.

The NASA simulation on its Pleiades supercomputer simulated the orbits of the comets and the gravitational pull on them, which revealed that the inner ... the outer reaches of the solar system ...

The outer part is more vulnerable to nearby stars, while the inner part is more stable due ... with respect to the usual plane of our solar system. This discovery has led experts to conclude ...