01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... analysis shows that the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the local interstellar medium has a...The heliopause is the boundary of the heliosphere that separates the solar wind plasma (a soup of ionised gas made up of of...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... to these differences in isotopic composition as the NC–CC dichotomy, a phenomena which most likely reflects the separation of the early Solar System into an inner and outer disk separated by Jupiter, which acted as a barrier between the two regions...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... team state that ‘whatever the formation mechanism, the detection of crystalline water ice is consistent with observations on solar system satellites, where most are detected to have crystalline ice at least at the surface.’ More information on this...
27 February 2019
FarFarOut beats FarOut as most distant Solar System body ever seen
...Object (eTNO) that is 140 AU away. The outer realm of the Solar System is a vast, chaotic and relatively little-known about domain, that... Planet Nine lay hidden in the far reaches of the Solar System and was causing a group of outliers to bunch-up...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
... atmosphere of 2I/Borisov; the first alien comet to visit our Solar System. “At first we had a hard time believing that atomic...originated from, but also shows that the interloper and Solar System comets have even more in common than previously thought...
18 July 2018
Solar Planetary Systems
... remit and covers multiple aspects of planetary systems in 21 chapters. Following a brief introduction to the main bodies of our solar system, it addresses the origin and formation of the system and then extends this to extra...
