27 February 2019
FarFarOut beats FarOut as most distant Solar System body ever seen
... this 300 kilometre wide object was discovered about 80 AU from the Sun; an astronomical unit is the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun - so around 149.6 million kilometres. Neptune for comparison is 30 AU away, which...
24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
... to find their previous positions, Namouni and Morais found these objects were orbiting the Sun on a plane perpendicular to the planetary motion going on at the time of the Solar System’s formation. Not only that but they were located far from...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...With a 4000-fold increase in brightness between the beginning of February and near the end of March, the increase in activity of the Comet as it approached the Sun was expected to make it visible to the naked eye; a boon for comet watchers everywhere...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... 24 "superhabitable" exoplanets that are potentially better than our own. As a warm, temperate world at a favourable distance from the Sun, and with an abundance of liquid water on its surface, Earth is a planet like no other that we know of so far...
