Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters in ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the extreme winds observed around their equators. While some of these planets have ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...

Two errors that wouldn’t go away Solar physicists have worked for years with models that don’t quite match physical ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the ...

The unpainted models of Haumea and Makemake, with a hand for size comparison. The dwarf planets models are slightly smaller than a quarter. Credit: Cameron Levasseur / The County Ever since the ...

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider ...

LILLE, Maine -- From left to right, Upper St. John River Organization Directors Tom Gerard and Steve Young, University of Maine at Presque Isle Emeritus Geology Professor Kevin McCartney, and Upper St ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...