How the discovery of the ‘inner kernel’ may hold the answers to Neptune’s migration |

The Kuiper Belt has long fascinated astronomers, not only because it sits at the edge of our Solar System, but because it preserves some of the earliest material that formed around the Sun. For years, it was described simply as a wide ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, an ancient reservoir of frozen debris. Yet […]

How Pluto captured a moon almost its own size |

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, has become central to research on how small worlds form and evolve in the outer Solar System. The pair orbits a shared centre of mass that lies outside Pluto’s surface, a feature that sets the system apart from typical planet and moon relationships. This distinctive arrangement has raised long standing questions […]