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 ...

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 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 ...

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.