#Neptune

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News for Students THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Grains of dust from the edge of the solar system could be finding their way to Earth. And NASA may already have a handful of them, researchers report. An estimated 40,000 tons of space dust settle in Earth’s

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Grains of dust from the edge of the solar system could be finding their way to Earth. And NASA may already have a handful of the debris, researchers report. With an estimated 40,000 tons of space dust settling in Earth’s

Source: MIT Technology Review Pictures taken of the dwarf planet and its moon Charon by the New Horizons probe are changing what we know about the mysterious Kuiper Belt. Some background: The Kuiper Belt sits beyond Neptune and is filled with a number of small, icy bodies. We don’t know a lot

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Neptune’s smallest moon may be a chunk of a neighboring moon that was knocked off by a comet. One of seven moons that orbit closer to Neptune than the planet’s largest moon, Triton, the newly dubbed Hippocamp is just roughly 34 kilometers across,

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Ultima Thule has a new mug shot. The closest-yet image of the ancient Kuiper Belt object, captured as the New Horizons spacecraft flew by January 1, shows a relatively smooth face unmarred by impact craters. “The thing is just not covered in