Kuiper Belt

An image of Kerberos, Pluto's smallest moon, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft

Astronomy

New Horizons completes "family portrait" of Pluto’s moons

Before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed its study of Pluto and continued on its way to the distant reaches of the Kuiper Belt, it took some parting images of Kerberos, Pluto’s smallest moon, completing a series of images of Pluto and its four other moons.

The latest findings indicate that the Earth's water may not have come from comets (Image ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM)

Astronomy

Rosetta sheds light on origin of Earth's oceans

The European Space Agency's (ESA) unmanned Rosetta probe orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is throwing new light on one of the fundamental questions in Earth's history – where did the oceans come from?

These computer Images represent infrared snapshots of Kuiper Belt dust as seen by a distant observer (Image: NASA/Goddard/Marc Kuchner and Christopher Stark)

Astronomy

Astronomers create 700 million year old view of our Solar System

For the first time researchers have simulated images of sections of our Solar System as they may have appeared some 700 million years ago.