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How the discovery of the ‘inner kernel’ may hold the answers to Neptune’s migration
The Kuiper Belt has long fascinated astronomers, not only because it sits at the edge of our Solar System, but because it preserves some of the earliest material that formed around the Sun. For years, ...
A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...
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New Kuiper Belt structure surprises astronomers
Fresh mapping of the outer solar system has revealed a previously unseen pattern in the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of debris beyond Neptune that has long been treated as a relatively simple torus of ...
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