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 ...

The inner and outer clouds formed a bit differently and ... albeit over a much longer time frame—like, age-of-the-Solar-System long. “In the inner Oort cloud […],” the authors wrote ...

There are many comets in the outer solar system. Comets are icy objects, which orbit the sun at very large distances. Halley's Comet is a very famous comet that was first recorded as being visible ...

That now applies to the outer solar system planets,” said ... Studies have confirmed the existence of a magnetic field in the inner solar system, extending to Jupiter’s orbit.

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 ...

Even in the inner solar system ... twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to take a tour of the outer solar system and then journey beyond it. Each craft was equipped with three RTGs ...

Robert French studies the rings and moons of the outer planets of our solar system - their origin ... analyzed the (in)stability of the inner Uranian satellites, and co-discovered a moon of Neptune.

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 ...