You’ve probably heard about the icy chunks floating around beyond Mars. That’s the asteroid belt. However, there’s something far more intriguing lurking in the shadows of our solar system’s outer reaches. The Kuiper Belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to ...
Picture yourself floating in the vast emptiness of space, gazing at our cosmic neighborhood with fresh eyes. You think you know the solar system, but honestly, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Beyond the textbook planets and familiar moons lies a treasure trove of mind-bending phenomena that would make even the most seasoned scientists do a ...
Space rocks plummeting through Earth’s atmosphere carry more than just cosmic debris. Inside these ancient messengers, scientists have uncovered materials so bizarre they challenge everything we thought we knew about the early solar system. From impossible crystals to the raw ingredients of life itself, are revealing secrets that could rewrite our understanding of how ...
