Articles tagged with #planetary formation

Scientists have long been fascinated by the unique snowman-shaped body discovered in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune. The object, dubbed "Ultima Thule," was first imaged by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2019. Since then, researchers have been working to understand the obje...

A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, has made a remarkable discovery that is challenging our current understanding of the universe. By analyzing data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), they detected a solar system that should not, according to our cu...