The solar system also includes the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud ... in their orbits and becoming the planets we know today. This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis.

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers ... More massive than the asteroid belt by 20 to 200 times, it consists of small remnants ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. An examination of nearly 8,000 impact observations indicates that the objects most likely to reach the ...

In the paper, Czechowski also considered the nearby main asteroid ... as these Kuiper Belt bodies can become unstable during their journey toward the inner Solar System, and such a catastrophic ...

Therefore, Ceres must've formed at the edge of the solar system and moved to the asteroid belt. However, the current study shows a connection between ammonium and salty deposits. The components of ...