22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... as Pluto and more recently another Kuiper Belt object known as (KBO) 2012 VP113 detected in the inner Oort cloud in 2014, the question of whether a massive planet really does reside in the outer solar system has been...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... to spotting objects within the scattered disk and other high-inclination TNO populations from the inner Oort cloud. Once identified, ALMA was then used to measure the object’s thermal emission. The team note in their...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
... it, the scattered disc is also a distant circumstellar disc that lies between the Kuiper belt and the Oort Cloud and it is sparsely populated with small icy planets known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). Not much is really...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... that ’Oumuamua’s elongated, cigar-shaped body was quite unlike the cometary objects that populate our Oort Cloud, as it didn’t show the usual tell tale sign of a coma (a comet’s tail). Comas appear when the object...
13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
... Solar System formed, some mysteries still remain. Why for example is Uranus tilted sideways, does the Oort Cloud really exist and why does a lot of the dust found in meteorites seem to have been melted rapidly...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... from a ring of icy debris at the periphery of our Solar System, called the Kuiper belt, or from the Oort cloud, a shell of icy objects which is thought to be in the outermost regions of our Solar System, with its innermost edge...
