June 3, 2025 — Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this ...

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The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, which orbit far beyond Neptune, seem to be clustered together in ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and beyond. At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

experts were hard at work preparing “Encounters in the Milky Way,” a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other celestial objects. They were fine-tuning a scene ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the galaxy, we might encounter stars, and even from a distance, they can ...

For its final images, at around 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) from the Sun, the probe pointed its cameras back in our direction and took a "Solar System Family Portrait". "It is the only ...

Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before The spacecraft’s tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

The dwarf planet's existence also opens the likelihood of many more like it in our solar system waiting to be found. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best ...

More information: Matthew J. Holman et al, Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation, arXiv (2025).DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.02140 Jacob A. Kurlander et al, Predictions of the LSST Solar ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near ...