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Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

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The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Figure 1: The asteroid belt in context with the planets. Figure 2: Cartoon of the effects of planetary migration on the asteroid belt. In the outer belt, reddish asteroids (S-types; see Fig. 3) make ...

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The exact shape of the Oort cloud and how it is affected by forces beyond our solar system have, so far, remained mysterious. Now, researchers have developed a new model that suggests the inner ...