Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. When you purchase through ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

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Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...