23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
..., PDS 70c, which is located approximately 5.3 billion kilometres from its host star – around the same distance as Neptune is from our Sun. At the time, a team led by Andrea Isella, an astronomer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, could...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... D-type Trojans resemble those found in the Kuiper Belt of icy bodies that extends beyond the orbit of Neptune. The C-types on the other hand are found mostly in the outer parts of the Main Belt of asteroids...
31 December 2018
Planetary Ring Systems: properties, structure and evolution
.... But Saturn’s rings are only the beginning: this book includes sections on the rings of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and “rings beyond the giant planets”. The text is divided into sections covering ring systems by location...
